On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:52:57 -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> Reading nntp: 3500K (<--counting)
> Reading active file from eu.Usenet-News.net via nntp... (waiting)
Maybe you want to change the value of the variable
gnus-read-active-file:
,----[ C-h v gnus-read-active-file RET ]
| `gnus-read-active-file' is a variable declared in Lisp.
| -- loaded from "gnus-start"
|
| Value: nil
|
| Documentation:
| *Non-nil means that Gnus will read the entire active file at startup.
| If this variable is nil, Gnus will only know about the groups in your
| `.newsrc' file.
|
| If this variable is `some', Gnus will try to only read the relevant
| parts of the active file from the server. Not all servers support
| this, and it might be quite slow with other servers, but this should
| generally be faster than both the t and nil value.
|
| If you set this variable to nil or `some', you probably still want to
| be told about new newsgroups that arrive. To do that, set
| `gnus-check-new-newsgroups' to `ask-server'. This may not work
| properly with all servers.
`----
As you can see above, I have configured mine to nil (in .gnus, like
this:
; I find new groups myself:
(setq gnus-read-active-file nil)
)
> ......then the groups come up and are listed. WTF!? slrn does it in
> 1/2 sec.
I guess Gnus works differently than slrn, then.
> I've tried reading the ~/newsrc (.el, .eld?) and can find no such
> file.
I've got:
$ ls .newsrc*
.newsrc .newsrc.eld
$
> All I find is ~/.news-dribble, which isn't even mentioned in the emacs
> or gnus manuals.
Perhaps that is because that file is an internal one?
> One reason (other than the fact I despise vi!) I want to get better at
> emacs instead of remaining with jed is, I can copy and paste into
> emacs with better results. With jed, specially with code, if I copy
> and paste into jed, the indentations (and sometimes no indentations)
> will always further indent to a stairstep, which has to be hand edited
> out. This is maddening and unacceptable. I don't have this problem
> with emacs. That makes it all worth the effort.
Do note though, that you can use Emacs with slrn just as easily as you
can jed.
Best regards,
Adam
--
"Yeah, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to go ahead and give Adam Sjøgren
this a 9.7 on the "whatever" scale." [email protected]
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