New to Gnus

New to Gnus

[Jeff Rancier]

Hi there,

I'm using WinXP pro, and I'm in the process of  eliminating Outlook Express
as my mail/news reader.  I've set my select-method in my ~/.gnus to

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))

and start Gnus in my .emacs, via (gnus-other-frame).   So, thus far, I'm
using Gnus only to read the subscribed groups on that server.

A couple questions:

1. When I attempt to send a reply to an article, I get "Searching for
program: no such file or directory, fakemail.  My understanding is that Gnus
functionality for sending/replying is sufficient.  I can't see why loading a
different package in not necessary.  I didn't find any occurrences of
fakemail in the NTEmacs 21.2 distribution.  Reading the info for Gnus,
nothing stuck out for configuration/customization.

2.  When reading an HTML message, I was getting an error finding url-vars,
found it in W3, installed and configured W3, and now see the HTML, but only
the tags.  Should I expect this behaviour, or is there something I need to
load (in W3 or Gnus) from my .emacs to make this work?

3.  When Gnus starts in the other frame, I'm required to double click on the
title bar to be able to see the entire frame, i.e., the mode-line is beyond
the actual display size.  Is there anyway to have the other frame maximized
without double clicking on it.

4.  I frequently use gnuclientw.exe to launch source files, etc.  Is there a
way to force the new file to pop up in my main frame of NTEmacs, and not in
my Gnus frame?

--

Thanks,
Jeff

Re: New to Gnus

[Jesper Harder]

"Jeff Rancier" <jeff.rancier@softechnics.com> writes:

> 1. When I attempt to send a reply to an article, I get "Searching for
> program: no such file or directory, fakemail.  My understanding is
> that Gnus functionality for sending/replying is sufficient.

On ms-windows you probably want to send mail directly through the SMTP
server of your ISP -- something like this:

   (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
   (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.example.com")

> 2.  When reading an HTML message, I was getting an error finding
> url-vars, found it in W3, installed and configured W3, and now see the
> HTML, but only the tags.  Should I expect this behaviour

W3 has some limitations, one them is that it does not always deal
graciously with malformed HTML (which is often the case with HTML
email).

AFAIK, there's no easy way to fix it in Gnus 5.9.  But the next version
will let you choose an alternative way to render HTML in Gnus, such as
Lynx, w3m or Links.

> 3.  When Gnus starts in the other frame, I'm required to double click
> on the title bar to be able to see the entire frame, i.e., the
> mode-line is beyond the actual display size.  Is there anyway to have
> the other frame maximized without double clicking on it.

You can specify the initial size of a new frame in
`default-frame-alist'.  

Also, I think there's some specific way to maximize under ms-windows,
see the Emacs on Windows FAQ for details

    <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq.html>.  

You could add that function to `gnus-started-hook'.