News Reading

News Reading

[Christopher]

When ever I use gnus, I am prompted with this question:

"Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it?"

Whether I say yes or no, emacs does the same thing. It says "nntp read:" 
followed by a certain number of kilobytes. I have to wait until this 
process is complete before I can do anything. I think it is actually 
fetching a list of newsgroups which it has already fetched several times.

Also, emacs forgets the newsgroups to which I have subscribed after I close 
out of it.

Is there a way to bypass this and simply go to a list of groups to which I 
have subscribed?

Re: News Reading

[Christopher]

Christopher wrote:

> When ever I use gnus, I am prompted with this question:
> 
> "Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it?"
> 
> Whether I say yes or no, emacs does the same thing. It says "nntp read:"
> followed by a certain number of kilobytes. I have to wait until this
> process is complete before I can do anything. I think it is actually
> fetching a list of newsgroups which it has already fetched several times.
> 
> Also, emacs forgets the newsgroups to which I have subscribed after I
> close out of it.
> 
> Is there a way to bypass this and simply go to a list of groups to which I
> have subscribed?

OK. Let me modify this slightly.

If I respond to "Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it?" with 
"yes", then Gnus reads a file which tells it which newsgroups I am 
subscribed to. However, I still have to wait for the "nntp read:" download, 
which takes several minutes. Is there anyway to bypass "nntp read."? Also, 
can I configure emacs so that it automatically reads the start-up file with 
my newsgroup subcriptions?

Re: News Reading

[Jonas Steverud]

Christopher <christop@localhost.localdomain> writes:

[...]
> However, I still have to wait for the "nntp read:" download, 
> which takes several minutes. Is there anyway to bypass "nntp read."?

It fetches the list of new articles and new groups from the news
server. By bypassing you won't see which new articles has arrived. If
the time bothers you, switch to a faster server.

> Also, can I configure emacs so that it automatically reads the
> start-up file with my newsgroup subcriptions?

It does by default. It reads .newsrc.eld which contains this
information plus which articles are read, unread, ticked etc.

As Jesper Harder pointed out, quit Gnus with q, when you do so, Gnus
saves the current status to .newsrc.eld and the question about
auto-saved files will disapear (if that's the reason for their existance).

You can also save the status by pressing 's' in the Group buffer.

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Re: News Reading

[Jesper Harder]

Christopher <christop@localhost.localdomain> writes:

> When ever I use gnus, I am prompted with this question:
>
> "Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it?"

You need to hit 'q', when you want to quit Gnus.  Otherwise Gnus gets
angry.  Do you still experience the problem when you quit Gnus properly?

Re: News Reading

[Christopher]

Christopher wrote:

<snip>

Normally I use emacs for text editing, so I am accustomed to quitting by 
typing crtl+x, ctrl+c. But gnus is apparently a kind of plug-in which you 
have to exit first by typing "q" in order for it to work properly when you 
start it the next time.

Thanks to Jesper and Jonas for the information.

Re: News Reading

[Kai Großjohann]

Christopher <christop@localhost.localdomain> writes:

> Normally I use emacs for text editing, so I am accustomed to quitting by 
> typing crtl+x, ctrl+c. But gnus is apparently a kind of plug-in which you 
> have to exit first by typing "q" in order for it to work properly when you 
> start it the next time.

Well, Gnus _does_ write the auto-save file...

Do you still have the problem that Gnus wants to download the active
file? 

kai
-- 
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Re: News Reading

[Christopher]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Christopher <christop@localhost.localdomain> writes:
> 
> > Normally I use emacs for text editing, so I am accustomed to quitting by 
> > typing crtl+x, ctrl+c. But gnus is apparently a kind of plug-in which you 
> > have to exit first by typing "q" in order for it to work properly when you 
> > start it the next time.
> 
> Well, Gnus _does_ write the auto-save file...
> 
> Do you still have the problem that Gnus wants to download the active
> file? 
> 
> kai
> -- 
> ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn    (Frank Nobis)

Nope. The problem is solved. I get a message at the bottom of the
screen which says "reading active file," and then I very quickly see a
list of newsgroups to which I have subscribed.