From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pulsarpietro@posteo.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus question Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:31:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87oac9dyud.fsf@posteo.net> <878u3dghko.fsf@debian.uxu> <0b8481493c02ad64a972a11bed3265bb@posteo.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453829501 10260 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2016 17:31:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:31:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+pulsarpietro=posteo.net@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 18:31:29 2016 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 1aO7Sj-0001G9-HJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:31:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO7Sf-0000qk-P9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:31:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33753) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO7SS-0000qM-2c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:31:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO7SO-0000Ac-Jn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:31:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:47332) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO7SO-0000AP-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:31:08 -0500 Original-Received: from dovecot03.posteo.de (dovecot03.posteo.de [172.16.0.13]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1076E20A95 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:31:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.posteo.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dovecot03.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3pqZpx6g5hz5vN8; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:31:04 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <0b8481493c02ad64a972a11bed3265bb@posteo.net> X-Sender: pulsarpietro@posteo.net User-Agent: Posteo Webmail X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.65 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:108869 Archived-At: Oks, I kinda got it working, or at least not failing miserably, it is just that it takes ages to "Checking new news". On 26.01.2016 18:08, pulsarpietro@posteo.net wrote: > 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 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.