A Few Questions?

[Mike Scott]

Having spent a few days fiddling with Gnus, I seem to have it more or
less beaten into submission and doing what I want. However, I have a
few questions I can't find answers to.

1. When using the Agent mode, is there any way to read the first few
articles that have come in while the rest are still downloading,
rather than having to wait for them all before you can start
reading. This is probably Gnus' biggest deficiency for me, as compared
with Forte Agent.

2. Probably rather simpler. How can I get auto-fill-mode to turn on
automatically for new messages and posts?

3. I've got a complete active file sitting in the agent library
directory, but the groups don't seem to be showing at all (I've
checked zombies and killed groups). Is this normal?

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Mike Scott
mi...@plokta.com
http://www.plokta.com

[Kai Großjohann]

Mike Scott <mi...@moose.demon.co.uk> writes:

> 1. When using the Agent mode, is there any way to read the first few
> articles that have come in while the rest are still downloading,
> rather than having to wait for them all before you can start
> reading. This is probably Gnus' biggest deficiency for me, as
> compared with Forte Agent.

Emacs does not grok multi-tasking. But you may wish to investigate
the gnus-slave command. With it, you could start two Emacsen, one
running a plugged Gnus which is fetching articles, and the other
running an unplugged Gnus which is reading articles.

The only catch is that there doesn't seem to be a gnus-slave-unplugged
command, but presumably saying M-x gnus-slave RET and then going
unplugged would be sufficient.

> 2. Probably rather simpler. How can I get auto-fill-mode to turn on
> automatically for new messages and posts?

I like it on for all text-like modes. I'm sure you can see how to
modify this so that it happens for message-mode rather than text-mode.

(add-hook 'text-mod-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

kai
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