Re: More gnewb questions

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:52:57 -0600, notbob@bb.nothome.com wrote:

> Reading nntp: 3500K   (<--counting)

> Reading active file from eu.Usenet-News.net via nntp...  (waiting)

Maybe you want to change the value of the variable
gnus-read-active-file:

,----[ C-h v gnus-read-active-file RET ]
| `gnus-read-active-file' is a variable declared in Lisp.
|   -- loaded from "gnus-start"
| 
| Value: nil
| 
| Documentation:
| *Non-nil means that Gnus will read the entire active file at startup.
| If this variable is nil, Gnus will only know about the groups in your
| `.newsrc' file.
| 
| If this variable is `some', Gnus will try to only read the relevant
| parts of the active file from the server.  Not all servers support
| this, and it might be quite slow with other servers, but this should
| generally be faster than both the t and nil value.
| 
| If you set this variable to nil or `some', you probably still want to
| be told about new newsgroups that arrive.  To do that, set
| `gnus-check-new-newsgroups' to `ask-server'.  This may not work
| properly with all servers.
`----

As you can see above, I have configured mine to nil (in .gnus, like
this:
  ; I find new groups myself:
  (setq gnus-read-active-file nil)
)

> ......then the groups come up and are listed.  WTF!?  slrn does it in
> 1/2 sec.

I guess Gnus works differently than slrn, then.

> I've tried reading the ~/newsrc (.el, .eld?) and can find no such
> file.

I've got:

  $ ls .newsrc*
  .newsrc  .newsrc.eld
  $ 

> All I find is ~/.news-dribble, which isn't even mentioned in the emacs
> or gnus manuals.

Perhaps that is because that file is an internal one?

> One reason (other than the fact I despise vi!) I want to get better at
> emacs instead of remaining with jed is, I can copy and paste into
> emacs with better results.  With jed, specially with code, if I copy
> and paste into jed, the indentations (and sometimes no indentations)
> will always further indent to a stairstep, which has to be hand edited
> out.  This is maddening and unacceptable.  I don't have this problem
> with emacs.  That makes it all worth the effort.

Do note though, that you can use Emacs with slrn just as easily as you
can jed.


  Best regards,

     Adam

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