Re: Error in `gnus-topic-select-group'

2011-01-29 Thread Dan Davison
Lars Ingebrigtsen la...@gnus.org writes: Dan Davison dandavis...@gmail.com writes: - I get an error in the function `gnus-agent-possibly-alter-active' when evaluating (setcdr active agent-max): Wrong type argument: consp, nil `(setq debug-on-error t)', repeat the bug and post

Error in `gnus-topic-select-group'

2011-01-29 Thread Dan Davison
Using today's gnus git HEAD with emacs 23 and 24, I - Start gnus - nntp groups appear with an asterisk before their names, indicating that they are not yet opened - Hit RET (gnus-topic-select-group) - I get an error in the function `gnus-agent-possibly-alter-active' when

Incorrect rendering of unicode characters in summary buffer

2011-01-29 Thread Dan Davison
I use non-ascii characters in my summary buffer. This one renders correctly: (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root ♽ ) However the following render as 2 or 3 empty rectangles, followed by a right pointing arrow (larger than the desired arrow heads): (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical│)

Re: Error in `gnus-topic-select-group'

2011-01-29 Thread Dan Davison
Lars Ingebrigtsen la...@gnus.org writes: Dan Davison dandavis...@gmail.com writes: gnus-agent-possibly-alter-active(gmane.emacs.orgmode nil (gmane.emacs.orgmode 3 (36655 36662) ((seen ...) (reply 36042 36067 36303 36319 36529 36582) (tick 36655 36662 The second parameter

Re: Incorrect rendering of unicode characters in summary buffer

2011-01-29 Thread Dan Davison
Lars Ingebrigtsen la...@gnus.org writes: Dan Davison dandavis...@gmail.com writes: However the following render as 2 or 3 empty rectangles, followed by a right pointing arrow (larger than the desired arrow heads): (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical│) (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree

No unread news: nntp with gnus-agent

2010-09-16 Thread Dan Davison
I thought I'd investigate gnus-agent, now that I'm watching the download limit on my mobile broadband account. However, I didn't get far. In the server buffer I did J a on my eternal-september and gmane servers. Then I went to the group buffer and did g. It took a fairly long time (downloading

My drafts group has disappeared

2010-06-26 Thread Dan Davison
My drafts group has disappeared and I don't know how to get it back. The value of nndraft-directory is ~/News/drafts/ and indeed ~/News/drafts/drafts contains my drafts (an empty dir ~/News/drafts/queue also exists). My server buffer looks like this {nnfolder:archive} (opened)

How to reply in an old thread

2010-05-08 Thread Dan Davison
I'm reading news groups using the nntp backend. How do I search for a particular old posting, in order to reply in an old thread? I've just switched to reading mailing lists via nntp; previously I just signed up to have emails delivered from the mailing lists I read. However, I am pretty clueless

Migrating maildirs to new computer

2009-09-25 Thread Dan Davison
I have a functioning setup on one computer with maildirs served by dovecot, using nnimap in gnus. How should I migrate these maildirs to a new computer? I have tried various combinations of the following, but am always encountering problems (gnus says articles don't exist, articles don't match

Re: Getting started reading mail stored in local maildir

2009-02-12 Thread Dan Davison
Richard Riley rileyrgdev at gmail.com writes: Dan Davison davison at stats.ox.ac.uk writes: I want to try out gnus, but have got nowhere so far. I would greatly appreciate instruction on how to read mail stored locally in maildirs. My email is downloaded by getmail, and stored