Hello Giorgos, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:44:20 +0100, Francis Moreau wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm still learning gnus and still have a couple of basic questions: >> >> - How can I mark a whole thread as expirable. I tried to process >> mark the whole thread and press 'E' but... > > I often use `C-k' to kill the entire thread, but there are other ways > to mark and expire parts of a thread, or even the entire thread.` Yes but it only marks the whole thread as read. > > If you want to expire only the articles marked with the process mark, > you can use the `M-&' prefix. Mark the articles first and then type > `M-& E' to expire all the process-marked articles. Very useful, I missed this one in the info ! > >> - How can I guess 'gnus-cite-[0-9]' meanings, that is when these >> variables are actually used. > > These are faces with various colors, and other font style options. They > are commonly used as elements of the `gnus-cite-face-list'. When quoted > material is displayed in an article buffer Gnus cycles through the list > of faces in `gnus-cite-face-list' as the nesting level of quotations > increases. > > You can find out more about `gnus-cite-face-list' by reading its doc > string > > C-h v gnus-cite-face-list RET > > and by looking it up in the index of the Gnus manual: > > C-h i m Gnus RET ; Fire up the Gnus manual > i gnus-cite-face-list RET ; Lookup variable in the Index. > >> - When I read an article (in the article buffer), I'd like long >> lines that don't fit in one line to be split into several lines. >> Currently the end of these lines are not displayed. > > The default behavior of Emacs is to wrap long lines. What you wrote > above seems to be the result of a local customization. You're right: asking for the description of this variable tells me: ,---- | truncate-lines is a variable defined in `C source code'. | Its value is t | Local in buffer *Summary gmane.emacs.gnus.user*; global value is nil | Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion. `---- So this variable seems to have been customized locally though I don't know why. > > If you have customized the `truncate-lines' and you want to _keep_ > this sort of customization for everything else but to disable it for > Gnus, you may have to explicitly reset its value to nil in article > buffers: > > (add-hook 'gnus-article-prepare-hook > '(lambda () > (setq truncate-lines nil))) > > FWIW, quickly toggling between truncated lines and wrapped lines is > something I often find useful, so I have the following in my ~/.emacs > file too: > > ;; Truncating of long lines is turned off by default, but I may > ;; want to quickly toggle it back on with C-c t. > (setq truncate-lines nil) > (global-set-key "\C-ct" 'toggle-truncate-lines) > > This way I can type `C-c t' to enter and leave truncate-lines mode. > All of this is also usefull, > Happy Gnus'ing :-) Thanks again ! Francis _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
