Re: Gnus Describe Group and Gnus Describe All Groups

[Richmond]

Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:
>
>> When viewing the list of subscribed groups in gnus, you can select
>> from                                                  
>> the group menu an option to describe the group (ctrl-c ctrl-d). For
>> this                                                 
>> group the description is "News reading under GNU Emacs using GNUS
>> (in                                                    
>> English)." There is also an option to describe all groups (alt-d
>> or                                                      
>> M-d). I anticipated that this would put the description like
>> above                                                       
>> beside each group, but it just puts the group name. Is this a
>> bug?                                                       
> When I run `gnus-group-describe-all-groups' it pops up a completely
> separate buffer containing all group descriptions, one per line.
> `gnus-group-describe-group', on the other hand, just echoes the
> description in the minibuffer. Neither of the commands actually change
> how the *Group* buffer looks. Is that not what you're seeing?

No, not in the first case gnus-group-describe-all-groups
I am seeing a list of all the groups, including those
I am not subscribed to, in the *group* buffer, beginning like this:

     
*:                                                                              
                                  

      *: aaa.inu-chan        
aaa.inu-chan                                                                    
          

      *: ab.arnet            
ab.arnet                                                                        
          

      *: ab.general           ab.general
                                                                            

But note that it is not a description, it is simply the name of the
group repeated.

There is one error message in the messages buffer:

Reading descriptions file via nntp...               
Opening nntp server on news.aioe.org...done         
Reading descriptions file...done                    
Reading descriptions file via nnfolder...           
Couldn't read newsgroups descriptions               
Reading descriptions file via nntp...               
Opening nntp server on news.gmane.io...             
Opening nntp server on news.gmane.io...done         
Reading descriptions file...done                    
Reading descriptions file via nntp...               
Opening nntp server on news.mozilla.org...done      
Reading descriptions file...done                    

If I use "Group and description apropos" from the menu and press return
I see this:

aaa.inu-chan                                                                    
                                        

  Inu-chan by Kenso KATO
(Moderated)                                                                     
               

ab.arnet                                                                        
                                        

  No description.
(Moderated)                                                                     
                      

ab.general                                                                      
                                        

  Items of general interest in Alberta,
Canada.                                                                         


In it's own buffer, which at least proves to me that there is a
description for these groups.