Re: on automatic gnus-summary-insert-new-articles after posting

[Winston]

Robert Girault  writes:
> This brings me to a point I've been trying to set up Gnus for.  I'd like
> to keep, for a while, a history of everything I wrote.  ...

> When I enter a group, I feel lost.  I think it's slrn that I've used in
> the past.  When I'd enter a news group, I'd have a clear idea of what's
> happening --- which threads are growing and which are not.

Some adjustments you could try to see if they help:

(setq gnus-use-cross-reference t)
(setq gnus-thread-indent-level 2)
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-subject))

I find that sorting threads by subject does a decent job of putting
related articles together, even when their original context is no longer
in the article summary.

Next, use Gnus article scoring to highlight articles you've posted and
replies to them:

* Increase score in all newsgroups on articles "From" you ()

and

* Increase score in all newsgroups on articles with "References" that
  include "f...@dev.null>"

The easiest way to do that is usually to start by going to an article
you posted.

The scoring rules should end up in News/all.SCORE and (depending on what
you left in the string to match on) might look something like:

(("from"
  ("r@dev\\.null" 1000 nil r))
 ("references"
  ("\\.fsf@dev\\.null>" 1000 nil r))

[I'm not certain about the "\\." instead of just plain "." above, but I
think it's a regular expression and thus needs \. to prevent "." from
being the 1-char wild card.]

If you follow groups that are very active, setting a number-of-articles
limit such as

(setq gnus-large-newsgroup 400)

might also be helpful.  If there are more articles than the limit, you
get the choice of which (oldest or newest), and how many to view.

HTH,
 -WBE
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Re: on automatic gnus-summary-insert-new-articles after posting

[Winston]

Robert Girault  writes:
> How can I 
>
>   gnus-summary-insert-new-articles
>
> automatically after posting?  I'd like to see my articles right away in
> the thread without having to ``/ N'' every time I post.

I don't have an answer for the question you asked, but I'll point out
that, in theory, articles don't necessarily appear for reading instantly
after you post them.  Articles to a moderated group, for example, will
go to the moderator for approval.  Articles to unmoderated groups may be
subject to input filtering, throttling, indexing for overviews, etc.,
such that the faster you re-check for new articles, the less likely you
are to find your new one.  You could work around the latter issue a bit
if you can do "sleep N sec, check".
 -WBE
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Re: how to get a message out of nndraft:queue

[Winston]

die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) asked:
> The only way I succeeded was with guessing "M-x gnus-draft-send-message"
> could help and indeed it worked.

> Do you know a keyboard shortcut for this command or a more elgant way to
> behave in such situations?

As to your first question, where-is should tell you where, if anywhere,
a command is bound.  Also, a look at the output of describe-bindings
might reveal some useful command.
 -WBE
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Re: alt-tab? really? you're joking...

[Winston]

Hikaru Ichijyo ichi...@macross.sdf.jp asked:
 Is there any way I can make cancelled messages just go away?  (After
 all, they don't even exist anymore...)

'x' ?
 -WBE
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Re: Sometimes problem when posting to aioe

[Winston]

Cecil Westerhof ce...@decebal.nl wrote:
 This works with one very important hitch: I lose all my marks.

to which I incompletely replied:
 Another, and rather simple, solution to this problem is:

 cd ~/News/marks
 ln -s news.aioe.org nntp.aioe.org[or vice versa]

Oops.  Similarly, you also need to do:

cd ~/News/agent/nntp
ln -s news.aioe.org nntp.aioe.org  [or vice versa]

HTH,
 -WBE
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Re: Sometimes problem when posting to aioe

[Winston]

Cecil Westerhof ce...@decebal.nl asked:
 I use the aioe newsserver. Sometimes I get:
 nntp (news.aioe.org) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)

 The only way to keep reading and sending news is to change:
 (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp news.aioe.org))
 to:
 (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp nntp.aioe.org))

 Does anybody know why this happens and what to do about it?

My impression from actual use is that one or the other server is
actually down for a few hours or sometimes days at a time.  As long as
at least one of them is up, the service itself is logically available.
The solution is just what you're already doing, or something such as
what others have already suggested.

 This works with one very important hitch: I lose all my marks.

Another, and rather simple, solution to this problem is:

cd ~/News/marks
ln -s news.aioe.org nntp.aioe.org[or vice versa]

HTH,
 -WBE
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