Re: For the complete novice without knowledge of code how to deal with the code for setting up mail in gnus

2006-07-02 Thread B. T. Raven
"Don Saklad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > For the complete novice without good knowledge of code, how can > setting up mail in gnus be explained? > > There's got to be an easier way of explaining what some think to > be unexplainable. So you don't know lisp, here's

Re: For the complete novice without knowledge of code how to deal with the code for setting up mail in gnus

2006-07-02 Thread B. T. Raven
"Johan Bockgård" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "B. T. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How can I use one email address for mail and one for news, using > > gnus for both? > > Like > > (set

Re: How to develop even better explanations, ever better explanations not so opaque blocking the passage of the radiant energy and the light to understanding the lisp coding a novice would insert to s

2006-07-17 Thread B. T. Raven
"Don Saklad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What is the appropriate mail system to use for setting up > mail in gnus for this system on this machine?... Which system? Which machine? Mutatis mutandis (use your own name and isp info of course), put the following into

Re: How to develop even better explanations, ever better explanations not so opaque blocking the passage of the radiant energy and the light to understanding the lisp coding a novice would insert to s

2006-07-18 Thread B. T. Raven
ing gnus, and that > is how to manage multiple accounts, not just multiple SMTPs, but also > multiple identities, like Thunderbird does. > > I have searched for an answer to this with no success. > > Could you please add to your example the lines needed to implement that? >

Re: Managing multiple identities (was: ...)

2006-07-20 Thread B. T. Raven
"Reiner Steib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, Jul 17 2006, Priyadarshan wrote: > > > There is something that has been stopping me from using gnus, and that > > is how to manage multiple accounts, not just multiple SMTPs, but also > > multiple identities, lik

.gnus and .emacs init files

2006-09-11 Thread B. T. Raven
I have the following in .emacs and some of the same entries in .gnus. Is there any reason other than modularizing the code that requires some things to go in .gnus and others in .emacs? Can anyone point me to setup code examples for using Gnus as the mail program rather than VM or rmail? I think I

quoted text prefix(es)

2007-02-23 Thread B. T. Raven
Is there a way to replace the stacks of right pointing arrows prefixed to quoted text in gnus or rmail with an abbreviation? E.g.: > >> 3> 4> ... This would prevent text with many levels of nested quotations from pushing text so far rightward that it is forced to wrap prematurely. It seems that it

Re: quoted text prefix(es)

2007-02-24 Thread B. T. Raven
ze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "B. T. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a way to replace the stacks of right pointing arrows prefixed to > > quoted text in gnus or rmail with an abbreviation? >

Re: .gnus init file

2015-02-03 Thread B . T . Raven
Sivaram NeelakantanMon, 02 Feb 2015 09:37:54 +0530 > >On Sun, Feb 01 2015,btraven wrote: > >> I have both .emacs and .gnus in ~\ (w32 24.4) and am manually >> transfering gnus stuff from .emacs to .gnus >> Is there a way to have options > customize write to a >> custom-set-variables paragraph in .

Re: Location of .gnus init file

2015-02-09 Thread B . T . Raven
Tassilo HornMon, 09 Feb 2015 10:26:41 +0100 > >emi...@sysmatrix.net (Ed C.) writes: > >> Question: Why does sort not work on articles when thread view is >> toggled off? > >There are two separate sorting variables in Gnus, one for threads >(`gnus-thread-sort-functions'), one for articles >(`gnus-ar

how to get around deprecated function

2015-04-28 Thread B . T . Raven
Hello: I am constantly losing short pieces of text left in *scratch* and I wrote this interactive function: (defun save-scratchtemp ();; M-x scr (interactive) (switch-to-buffer "*scratch*") (mark-whole-buffer) (setq start (point) end (mark)) (append-to-file start end "c:/mydocu~1/scratcht

Oops, sorry was Re: how to get around deprecated function

2015-04-28 Thread B . T . Raven
B. T. Raven28 Apr 2015 15:31:49 -0700 > >Hello: > >I am constantly losing short pieces of text left in *scratch* and I wrote this >interactive function: > >(defun save-scratchtemp ();; M-x scr > (interactive) > (switch-to-buffer "*scratch*") > (mark-whole-buffer) > (setq start (point) end (mark)