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+\input texinfo
@setfilename gnus
@settitle T-gnus 6.15 Manual
This file documents gnus, the GNU Emacs newsreader.
-Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
+Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
* Choosing Articles:: Reading articles.
* Paging the Article:: Scrolling the current article.
* Reply Followup and Post:: Posting articles.
-* Delayed Articles::
+* Delayed Articles::
* Marking Articles:: Marking articles as read, expirable, etc.
* Limiting:: You can limit the summary buffer.
* Threading:: How threads are made.
* Summary Mail Commands:: Sending mail.
* Summary Post Commands:: Sending news.
* Summary Message Commands:: Other Message-related commands.
-* Canceling and Superseding::
+* Canceling and Superseding::
Marking Articles
* Unread Articles:: Marks for unread articles.
* Read Articles:: Marks for read articles.
* Other Marks:: Marks that do not affect readedness.
-* Setting Marks::
-* Generic Marking Commands::
-* Setting Process Marks::
+* Setting Marks::
+* Generic Marking Commands::
+* Setting Process Marks::
Marking Articles
* Summary Group Information:: Information oriented commands.
* Searching for Articles:: Multiple article commands.
-* Summary Generation Commands::
+* Summary Generation Commands::
* Really Various Summary Commands:: Those pesky non-conformant commands.
Article Buffer
Agent Commands
-* Group Agent Commands::
-* Summary Agent Commands::
-* Server Agent Commands::
+* Group Agent Commands::
+* Summary Agent Commands::
+* Server Agent Commands::
Scoring
@samp{%M%S%5y: %(%g%)\n} is the value that produced those lines above.
There should always be a colon on the line; the cursor always moves to
-the colon after performing an operation. Nothing else is required---not
-even the group name. All displayed text is just window dressing, and is
-never examined by gnus. Gnus stores all real information it needs using
-text properties.
+the colon after performing an operation. @xref{Positioning
+Point}. Nothing else is required---not even the group name. All
+displayed text is just window dressing, and is never examined by Gnus.
+Gnus stores all real information it needs using text properties.
(Note that if you make a really strange, wonderful, spreadsheet-like
layout, everybody will believe you are hard at work with the accounting
value should be a regexp to match the groups that should go in that
topic.
+@item subscribe-level
+When subscribing new groups by topic (see the @code{subscribe} parameter),
+the group will be subscribed with the level specified in the
+@code{subscribe-level} instead of @code{gnus-level-default-subscribed}.
+
@end table
Group parameters (of course) override topic parameters, and topic
@item a
@kindex a (Group)
@findex gnus-group-post-news
-Post an article to a group (@code{gnus-group-post-news}). If given a
-prefix, the current group name will be used as the default.
-@xref{Composing Messages}.
+Start composing a message (a news by default)
+(@code{gnus-group-post-news}). If given a prefix, post to the group
+under the point. If the prefix is 1, prompt for a group to post to.
+Contrary to what the name of this function suggests, the prepared
+article might be a mail instead of a news, if a mail group is specified
+with the prefix argument. @xref{Composing Messages}.
@item m
@kindex m (Group)
@findex gnus-group-mail
-Mail a message somewhere (@code{gnus-group-mail}). @xref{Composing Messages}.
+Mail a message somewhere (@code{gnus-group-mail}). If given a prefix,
+use the posting style of the group under the point. If the prefix is 1,
+prompt for a group name to find the posting style.
+@xref{Composing Messages}.
+
+@item i
+@kindex i (Group)
+@findex gnus-group-news
+Start composing a news (@code{gnus-group-news}). If given a prefix,
+post to the group under the point. If the prefix is 1, prompt
+for group to post to. @xref{Composing Messages}.
+
+This function actually prepares a news even when using mail groups.
+This is useful for "posting" messages to mail groups without actually
+sending them over the network: they're just saved directly to the group
+in question. The corresponding backend must have a request-post method
+for this to work though.
@end table
* Choosing Articles:: Reading articles.
* Paging the Article:: Scrolling the current article.
* Reply Followup and Post:: Posting articles.
-* Delayed Articles::
+* Delayed Articles::
* Marking Articles:: Marking articles as read, expirable, etc.
* Limiting:: You can limit the summary buffer.
* Threading:: How threads are made.
performing an operation. (Of course, Gnus wouldn't be Gnus if it wasn't
possible to change this. Just write a new function
@code{gnus-goto-colon} which does whatever you like with the cursor.)
+@xref{Positioning Point}.
The default string is @samp{%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23n%]%) %s\n}.
* Summary Mail Commands:: Sending mail.
* Summary Post Commands:: Sending news.
* Summary Message Commands:: Other Message-related commands.
-* Canceling and Superseding::
+* Canceling and Superseding::
@end menu
@kindex S m (Summary)
@findex gnus-summary-mail-other-window
@c @icon{gnus-summary-mail-originate}
-Send a mail to some other person
-(@code{gnus-summary-mail-other-window}).
+Prepare a mail (@code{gnus-summary-mail-other-window}). By default, use
+the posting style of the current group. If given a prefix, disable that.
+If the prefix is 1, prompt for a group name to find the posting style.
+
+@item S i
+@itemx i
+@kindex i (Summary)
+@kindex S i (Summary)
+@findex gnus-summary-news-other-window
+Prepare a news (@code{gnus-summary-news-other-window}). By default,
+post to the current group. If given a prefix, disable that. If the
+prefix is 1, prompt for a group to post to.
+
+This function actually prepares a news even when using mail groups.
+This is useful for "posting" messages to mail groups without actually
+sending them over the network: they're just saved directly to the group
+in question. The corresponding backend must have a request-post method
+for this to work though.
@item S D b
@kindex S D b (Summary)
@kindex S p (Summary)
@findex gnus-summary-post-news
@c @icon{gnus-summary-post-news}
-Post an article to the current group
-(@code{gnus-summary-post-news}).
+Prepare for posting an article (@code{gnus-summary-post-news}). By
+default, post to the current group. If given a prefix, disable that.
+If the prefix is 1, prompt for another group instead.
@item S f
@itemx f
@item
@vindex gnus-unseen-mark
Articles that haven't been seen by the user before are marked with a
-@samp{.} in the second column (@code{gnus-unseen-mark}).
+@samp{.} in the second column (@code{gnus-unseen-mark}).
@item
@vindex gnus-not-empty-thread-mark
@kindex / o (Summary)
@findex gnus-summary-insert-old-articles
Insert all old articles in the summary buffer. If given a numbered
-prefix, fetch this number of articles.
+prefix, fetch this number of articles.
@end table
@findex gnus-summary-pipe-output
Save the current article in a pipe. Uhm, like, what I mean is---Pipe
the current article to a process (@code{gnus-summary-pipe-output}).
+
+@item O P
+@kindex O P (Summary)
+@findex gnus-summary-muttprint
+@vindex gnus-summary-muttprint-program
+Save the current article into muttprint. That is, print it using the
+external program Muttprint (see
+@uref{http://muttprint.sourceforge.net/}). The program name and
+options to use is controlled by the variable
+@code{gnus-summary-muttprint-program}. (@code{gnus-summary-muttprint}).
+
@end table
@vindex gnus-prompt-before-saving
from the @code{pbmplus} package and friends.@footnote{On a GNU/Linux
system look for packages with names like @code{netpbm} or
@code{libgr-progs}.}) If you want to have this function in the display
-hook, it should probably come last.
+hook, it should probably come last.
(NOTE: @code{x-face} is used in the variable/function names, not @code{xface}).
@item W b
@vindex gnus-ps-print-hook
@findex gnus-summary-print-article
Generate and print a PostScript image of the article buffer
-(@code{gnus-summary-print-article}). @code{gnus-ps-print-hook} will be
-run just before printing the buffer.
+(@code{gnus-summary-print-article}). @code{gnus-ps-print-hook} will
+be run just before printing the buffer. An alternative way to print
+article is to use Muttprint (@pxref{Saving Articles}).
@end table
@menu
* Summary Group Information:: Information oriented commands.
* Searching for Articles:: Multiple article commands.
-* Summary Generation Commands::
+* Summary Generation Commands::
* Really Various Summary Commands:: Those pesky non-conformant commands.
@end menu
buffers. For example:
@lisp
-(setq gnus-newsgroup-variables
+(setq gnus-newsgroup-variables
'(message-use-followup-to
- (gnus-visible-headers .
+ (gnus-visible-headers .
"^From:\\|^Newsgroups:\\|^Subject:\\|^Date:\\|^To:")))
@end lisp
@item h
Displayed when headers are hidden in the article buffer.
-@item p
+@item p
Displayed when article is digitally signed or encrypted, and Gnus has
hidden the security headers. (N.B. does not tell anything about
security status, i.e. good or bad signature.)
(setq nnmail-expiry-target "nnml:expired")
@end lisp
+@findex nnmail-fancy-expiry-target
+@vindex nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets
+Gnus provides a function @code{nnmail-fancy-expiry-target} which will
+expire mail to groups according to the variable
+@code{nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets}. Here's an example:
+
+@lisp
+ (setq nnmail-expiry-target 'nnmail-fancy-expiry-target
+ nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets
+ '((to-from "boss" "nnfolder:Work")
+ ("subject" "IMPORTANT" "nnfolder:IMPORTANT.%Y.%b")
+ ("from" ".*" "nnfolder:Archive-%Y")))
+@end lisp
+
+With this setup, any mail that has @code{IMPORTANT} in its Subject
+header and was sent in the year @code{YYYY} and month @code{MMM}, will
+get expired to the group @code{nnfolder:IMPORTANT.YYYY.MMM}. If its
+From or To header contains the string @code{boss}, it will get expired
+to @code{nnfolder:Work}. All other mail will get expired to
+@code{nnfolder:Archive-YYYY}.
@vindex nnmail-keep-last-article
If @code{nnmail-keep-last-article} is non-@code{nil}, Gnus will never
be called with the headers narrowed and should return a group where it
thinks the article should be split to. See @code{nnimap-split-fancy}.
-The splitting code tries to create mailboxes if it need too.
+The splitting code tries to create mailboxes if it needs to.
To allow for different split rules on different virtual servers, and
even different split rules in different inboxes on the same server,
and in that case @code{nnvirtual} tells Gnus that the article came from a
not-news back end. (Just to be on the safe side.)
-@kbd{C-c C-t} in the message buffer will insert the @code{Newsgroups}
+@kbd{C-c C-n} in the message buffer will insert the @code{Newsgroups}
line from the article you respond to in these cases.
@menu
-* Group Agent Commands::
-* Summary Agent Commands::
-* Server Agent Commands::
+* Group Agent Commands::
+* Summary Agent Commands::
+* Server Agent Commands::
@end menu
You can run a complete batch fetch from the command line with the
@kindex J u (Agent Summary)
@findex gnus-agent-summary-fetch-group
Download all downloadable articles in the current group
-(@code{gnus-agent-summary-fetch-group}).
+(@code{gnus-agent-summary-fetch-group}).
@end table
this mechanism does, but here's a cookbook example for @code{nnml} on
how to allow scoring on the @samp{To} and @samp{Cc} headers.
-Put the following in your @file{.gnus.el} file.
+Put the following in your @file{.gnus.el} file.
@lisp
(setq gnus-extra-headers '(To Cc Newsgroups Keywords)
@node Advanced Scoring Examples
@subsection Advanced Scoring Examples
+Please note that the following examples are score file rules. To
+make a complete score file from them, surround them with another pair
+of parentheses.
+
Let's say you want to increase the score of articles written by Lars
when he's talking about Gnus:
@itemize @bullet
-@item
+@item
The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
-@item
+@item
Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
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