Re: Gnus question

[pulsarpietro@posteo.net]

Thanks a lot, I have tried to use your file as my .gnus.el startup file, 
nothing is working though.

As soon as I start gnus (M-x gnus) I get :

Error in ~/.gnus: Cannot open load file

Any thoughts ?

On 26.01.2016 04:12, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Pietro <pulsarpietro@posteo.net> writes:
> 
>> I am not sure this is the right place for a question
>> regarding gnus, if there is a more specific mailing
>> list for it please point me at that so I can try to
>> post there.
> 
> This is the right place, or one of many right places
> because yes, there are Gnus lists/newsgroups.
> 
> One can use Gnus and in particular Gmane to find out.
> And Gmane is actually the answer to your other
> question as well!
> 
> You set it up like this:
> 
>     (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
> 
> If you need help to get it up and running, check out
> this file, and the other files in the same directory
> (or ask here again, of course):
> 
>     http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/gnus/gnus-my.el
> 
> When you get it to work, run
> `gnus-group-enter-server-mode' (hit `^' in the group
> buffer), then find the Gmane line (should be
> "nntp: news.gmane.org" or something similar) and hit
> RET. Then make a search for "gnus":
> 
>     K     64: gmane.emacs.gnus.announce
>     K    787: gmane.emacs.gnus.buildbot
>     K   6351: gmane.emacs.gnus.commits
>     K  12504: gmane.emacs.gnus.cvs
>     K  82890: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
>     K     30: gmane.emacs.gnus.patches
>     K    262: gmane.emacs.gnus.semi
>     K  13531: gmane.emacs.gnus.semi.japanese
>     K      1: gmane.emacs.gnus.tutorial
>        17939: gmane.emacs.gnus.user
> 
> Move point to the desired group and do
> `gnus-browse-unsubscribe-current-group' (key: `u') to
> subscribe (yes, the name is confusing).
> 
>> I am wrestling with GNU to get my email splitting
>> done, I am actually trying to split the email coming
>> from the this mailing list address and this is how
>> my .gnus.el looks like [...]
> 
> And this is the whole thing with Gmane - you don't
> have to split mails from mailing lists into
> pseudo-newsgroups anymore! Gmane does that for you.
> So in your group buffer you can have
> 
>     6     gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel              463
>     6     gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user                87
>     6     gmane.emacs.devel                       2399
>     6     gmane.emacs.erc.general
>     3     gmane.emacs.gnus.user
>     3     gmane.emacs.help                          18
>     6     gmane.emacs.sources                       28
>     6     gmane.emacs.w3m
>     3     gmane.linux.debian.user                    1
> 
> and so on but you don't need to deal with any of the
> subscription overhead and you don't have to do the
> splitting stuff.