From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus 'show X messages' Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:52:03 +0530 Message-ID: References: <87skz7oomc.fsf@mocker.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204633392 6272 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2008 12:23:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:23:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 04 13:23:38 2008 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 4.50) id 1JWWBG-0001Cc-Eg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:23:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWWAj-0004fz-41 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:23:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWW9v-0004TY-9l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:22:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWW9s-0004SR-LE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:22:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWW9s-0004SN-9o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:22:12 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWW9s-00054v-5U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:22:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JWW9p-0002uV-IU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:22:09 +0000 Original-Received: from 59.145.136.1 ([59.145.136.1]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:22:09 +0000 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 59.145.136.1 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:22:09 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.145.136.1 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OXXO1CK8v+JMj3TRVXBAXmDWHQQ= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:52040 Archived-At: Kyle Sexton writes: > Does anyone know how to make Gnus pull up the last say 100 messages from > a group when I enter it automatically, even if they are already read? I > know that I can do 'C-u 100 RET', but I always want to the last 100 or > so messages for the groups that I am reading. > > -- > Thanks, > Kyle Sexton > > > Does setting (display . 50) in the Group Parameters help? You could do that by hitting G P against the group and entering the lisp form. See the Gnus manual section Group Parameters sivaram --