Re: [gnus] Fetch only new news from last visit

[jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)]

Diep Pham writes:

> I'm trying to use gnus to read news from gmane.org. But it is 
> quite confusing to use. 
> 
> I subscribed to a group, when I try to access the group, gnus 
> ask me: "How many articles do you want to ...". I don't think 
> fetch all news is good idea so I choose 100. I read all news and 
> close gnus. When I open gnus and try to access the newsgroup 
> again, gnus still ask me "How many articles do you want to ...". 
> I enter 100 again and endup fetching older news than the last 
> time I visit the group. So my question: 
> 
> * is there a way that can prevent fetching older than last 
> visit?

You can catch up in that group, that is, mark all articles as 
read. Hit C on the group in the group buffer. 
 
> * is there a way to disable the prompt "How many ariticles ..." 
> and just fetch all new news like a normal news reader?

(setq gnus-large-newsgroup nil)

You should be careful with that variable, if you just subscribed 
to a group with a lot of articles, it will take a while to get 
them all. If you encounter that hit C-g, and then C-u followed by 
number of articles that you want and then <enter>. Then you can 
catch up in that group.

Best,
-- 
Jorge.