From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnus and group filtering Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:29:14 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87k3lfplet.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372352313 6527 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2013 16:58:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:58:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 27 18:58:36 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UsFWl-00025t-5A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:58:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39160 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsFWk-0002rx-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:58:34 -0400 X-Received: by 10.180.37.229 with SMTP id b5mr7618137wik.4.1372350583584; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:29:43 -0700 (PDT) X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.116.97 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!mf3no6722894wib.1!news-out.google.com!md6ni27360wic.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 68 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:IrecnVuQapLj6trcjg8arEdydSg= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199524 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:58:25 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91789 Archived-At: Mike Ray writes: > I am trying to use gnus to provide newsgroup, RSS and email to > the members of my community for visually impaired Raspberry Pi > users. > > I have a .gnus file which is allowing me to correctly show all > the active newsgroups on freenews.netfront.net, but I can't get > to grips with how to show/filter groups to which I have not > subscribed. > > Here's the problem in detail: > > 1. When I launch gnus I can show all active groups with `A A'. > > 2. Scrolling through this list to find interesting groups is > obviously out of the question because it is thousands and > thousands of groups. > > 3. All other attempts to show groups, for instance with a > regular expression show no groups. > > Presumably this is because of the 'levels' somehow. It is this > levels thing I can't get to grips with. > > How can I get to subscribe to, for example comp.lang.python > without scrolling through thousand of alt groups to get to the > comp.lang.* groups? First, there is gnu.emacs.gnus where you should send this. The traffic there is sometimes sparse, but at least send it there, as well. And don't feel ignored if you are - well, ignored. I have not experienced your problem, so I can't give you a solution. But check out a simple page I have on Gnus: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/gnus/index.html and especially the .emacs-gnus file on that page. Note that that is how I called the file, and it is loaded explicitly from my .emacs - it is somewhat nonstandard, but basically it is just like .emacs, .zshrc or any other init/config file. But, even more to the point, what's *not* on that page is a file called ~/.newsrc that could look like this: alt.hacker: 1-4958 comp.lang.lisp: 1-50400 comp.lang.perl.misc: 1-28118 rec.sport.boxing: 1-12261 comp.unix.misc! 1-331 comp.unix.programmer! 1-14380 comp.unix.shell: 1-21522 gnu.emacs.gnus: 1-5108 gnu.emacs.help: 1-32422 comp.os.linux: 1-15 alt.test! 1-231804 If my file looks like that, then those are the groups that I get. -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573