weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) (01/31/89)
I've been using GNUS for several weeks now, just to compare it with Gnews. It is nice and efficient and does most of what I want, but there are a few things that I haven't discovered how to do. I'd appreciate it if someone could answer the following questions: 1. When entering a group, there seem to be two options: read the new articles, or read all of the articles. While reading the new articles, I haven't figured out how to go back to an article that was read in a previous session. After reading all of the new articles, re-entering the group retrieves the headers of all previous articles, which may take a long time in a group with hundreds of messages. Is there any way to select only some of the previously-read articles? 2. When typing "n" or <space> at the last message in a group, it asks for the command to be repeated in order to go on to the next group. This is very annoying -- is there any way to make it just go to the next group and select the first article? 3. An article is marked as read as soon as it is selected. Can this be changed so that it is marked as read only after reaching the end of the message (or junking the message)? 4. Why is C-h m (describe-mode) so slow? 5. How does one insert the article being replied to in a reply or followup message? (Other than manually copying it from the *Article* buffer.) 6. When a cross-posted message is read, it is marked in all the groups to which it was posted -- even those that I don't subscribe to. This adds considerable junk to my .newsrc file. Is there a way to make it mark the article only in groups that are subscribed to?
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (02/01/89)
In article <WEENING.89Jan30223729@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU> weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) writes:
[several questions, to only one of which I can offer a useful answer]
5. How does one insert the article being replied to in a reply or
followup message? (Other than manually copying it from the
*Article* buffer.)
Just as in rmail: C-C C-Y invokes news-reply-yank-original, gives an
attribution line at the top, and indents the quoted text three spaces.ben@brain.brain.mth.msu.edu (Ben Lotto) (02/02/89)
In article <BOB.89Jan31124237@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
5. How does one insert the article being replied to in a reply or
followup message? (Other than manually copying it from the
Just as in rmail: C-C C-Y invokes news-reply-yank-original, gives an
attribution line at the top, and indents the quoted text three spaces.
Is there any easy way of modifying this so that the article is indented
with an arbitrary string? (I like ">" better than 3 spaces.)
-B. A. Lotto (ben@brain.mth.msu.edu)
Department of Mathematics/Michigan State University/East Lansing, MI 48824