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: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:11:50 +0200 Message-ID: <81dj15FtmgU1@mid.individual.net> References: <81bs1iFc20U1@mid.individual.net> <87k4svyw3o.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 1273057806 878 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 11:10:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:10:06 +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 13:10:05 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 1O9cUO-00027G-9H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 13:10:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9cUN-0004cr-NY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 07:10:03 -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: 45 Original-X-Trace: individual.net l8BHKG63fbWKsra/ebQ8lQYP72unWDJF6q44aNbXrdvGWtcxK9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:+2luc9dZL4GuwXEiUYUwEWczTcU= User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177596 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:51:31 -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:73377 Archived-At: Andreas Politz schrieb: > "E. Hoffmann" writes: > >> Hello all. >> >> 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? >> >> erch > > > In the *Groups* buffer press '^'. This brings up the server buffer. Now > locate your news-server and press 'RET'. > > Subscribe to groups you want to read with 'u'. > > 2 times 'q' and they should pop up in your *Groups* buffer. Thanks a lot! Next step will be learning the shortcuts and setting up the mail function. This is promising. > Why does this have to be so painful, you ask ? I don't know. Oh, not so painful after all. The only painful thing for me was not finding it in the documentation. erch > -ap