Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes: > Richmond <[email protected]> writes: > >> Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Richmond <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes: >>>> >>>>> Richmond <[email protected]> writes: >>>>> >>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>>>>>> Richmond <[email protected]> writes: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> When viewing the list of subscribed groups in gnus, you can select >>>>>>>> from >>>>>>>> the group menu an option to describe the group (ctrl-c ctrl-d). For >>>>>>>> this >>>>>>>> group the description is "News reading under GNU Emacs using GNUS >>>>>>>> (in >>>>>>>> English)." There is also an option to describe all groups (alt-d >>>>>>>> or >>>>>>>> M-d). I anticipated that this would put the description like >>>>>>>> above >>>>>>>> beside each group, but it just puts the group name. Is this a >>>>>>>> bug? >>>>>>> When I run `gnus-group-describe-all-groups' it pops up a completely >>>>>>> separate buffer containing all group descriptions, one per line. >>>>>>> `gnus-group-describe-group', on the other hand, just echoes the >>>>>>> description in the minibuffer. Neither of the commands actually change >>>>>>> how the *Group* buffer looks. Is that not what you're seeing? >>>>>> >>>> >>>>> Which of the above servers hosts the groups that aren't producing >>>>> descriptions correctly? I only use news.gmane.io. If the server is >>>>> freely accessible I can try reproducing the behavior. >>>>> >>>> There are no descriptions from any servers that I have tried (using >>>> gnus-group-describe-all-groups). You could try news.aioe.org, that is >>>> freely available. >>> >>> So far it works fine for me for news.gmane.io and news.aioe.org: >>> >>> *: nntp+news.aioe.org:ak.test Messages with the beta-nature. >>> *: nntp+news.aioe.org:akr.biz Advertisements for Akron area businesses. >>> *: nntp+news.aioe.org:akr.freenet Discussion about the Akron Regional >>> Free-Net. >>> *: nntp+news.aioe.org:akr.internet Internet access in the Akron, Ohio, area. >>> *: nntp+news.aioe.org:akr.jobs announcements and discussion of jobs in the >>> Akron area. >>> >>> news.mozilla.org simply seems to not provide group descriptions at all. >>> >>> Remind me of the version of Emacs/Gnus you're using? >> >> 26.3. I compiled it from source. > > Okay, with Emacs 26 I am able to reproduce that behavior. I don't think > Emacs 26 is getting bugfixes at this point, though, so I'm not sure what > to tell you. Is upgrading your Emacs a possibility?
OK I have upgraded to 27, and that has fixed the problem, although there is a non-existant group called 215 with the description 'Newsgroup descriptions in form "group description" ' Thanks for your help! _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
