From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "E. Hoffmann" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnus download newsrc? Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:34:08 +0200 Message-ID: <81gc7bFnk2U1@mid.individual.net> References: <81bs1iFc20U1@mid.individual.net> <87k4svyw3o.fsf@fh-trier.de> <8739zjje8i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <81djimFq6U1@mid.individual.net> <87aatqyyqh.fsf@fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273058256 2578 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 11:17:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:17:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 13:17:34 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9cbc-0005T0-Gp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 13:17:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9cbb-0003OC-Pb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 07:17:31 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 54 Original-X-Trace: individual.net n4DGNSY2tOCUGPVr8fOhtQChRjzirCk5N89oNS+EUXuNxVT9EG Cancel-Lock: sha1:ITch6St9OBa2m2j7KPlL3gLMQP0= User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177613 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:51:55 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73381 Archived-At: Andreas Politz schrieb: > "E. Hoffmann" writes: > >> Ted Zlatanov schrieb: >> >>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:40:43 +0200 Andreas Politz >> wrote: >>> >>> AP> "E. Hoffmann" writes: >>>>> I tried using emacs gnus newsreader. Contact with my newsserver >> including >>>>> authinfo works fine, but I just get 4 newsgroups. Gnus creates .newsrc- >>>>> dribble. I must have a blind spot, I don't find how to download a full >> list >>>>> of available newsgroup from my server. gnus-activate-new-groups won't >> show >>>>> up anything, neiter does A z nor A k. >>>>> >>>>> Excuse me if this is a too trivial question. How do I download a full >> list >>>>> of newsgroups? >>> >>> AP> In the *Groups* buffer press '^'. This brings up the server buffer. >> Now >>> AP> locate your news-server and press 'RET'. >>> >>> AP> Subscribe to groups you want to read with 'u'. >>> >>> AP> 2 times 'q' and they should pop up in your *Groups* buffer. >>> >>> AP> Why does this have to be so painful, you ask ? I don't know. >>> >>> Should the manual in (gnus) Finding the News mention this perhaps? >>> Right now it only talks about foreign groups but doesn't mention `^' >>> which turns out to be essential. >>> >> >> This could be of great help, for there I looked and didn't find it. >> >> erch >> >>> Ted > > I was just remembered, how much time I needed, to figure this out. > > BTW, while you're in the server-buffer, you may want to enable the > agent, in order to cache the news header. > > -ap Good. Done. Thanks. Erch