Re: Group subscribe tab-completion

2006-04-20 Thread xyblor
xyblor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > xyblor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shouldn't the newsrc.eld file save a list of all the available newsgroups, so I don't have to read the whole active file every time? > > Actually, it seems that gnus *is* saving the active file to disk in > ~/News/

Re: Group subscribe tab-completion

2006-04-20 Thread xyblor
xyblor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Shouldn't the newsrc.eld file save a list of all the available >>> newsgroups, so I don't have to read the whole active file every time? Actually, it seems that gnus *is* saving the active file to disk in ~/News/agent/nntp/server.name/agent.lib/active (it's

Re: Group subscribe tab-completion

2006-04-20 Thread xyblor
Karl Kleinpaste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > xyblor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Shouldn't the newsrc.eld file save a list of all the available >> newsgroups, so I don't have to read the whole active file every time? > > Saving the entire list of groups is a very expensive (in bandwidth and > s

Re: Group subscribe tab-completion

2006-04-20 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
xyblor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shouldn't the newsrc.eld file save a list of all the available > newsgroups, so I don't have to read the whole active file every time? Saving the entire list of groups is a very expensive (in bandwidth and storage space) thing to do because there are tens of th

Group subscribe tab-completion

2006-04-20 Thread xyblor
When I want to subscribe to a newsgroup with "U", tab-completion does not work, unless I have read the active file with "A A" or "b". Otherwise, the only valid completions are the groups I have already subscribed to. The Gnus tutorial led me to believe that tab-completion should always work, so I