Slackat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you for the L/l tip
No problem. > However, I am now running emacs/gnus/w3m/erc under X and it is very > helpful since the menus are quite navigable with the mouse > notwithstanding me being an old CLI afficionado Blasphemy! Using a mouse in emacs... what would rms say? > The UseNet newsgroups are really no problem, but TAB completion does > not seem to work for me. Are there any special pre-requisites?. Not that I can recall. I've been using this particular set-up for quite a while now and some of the configuration issues that I might have run into are long forgotten. Maybe someone else can shed light on this. > And even supposing that it did work, would my Posting Styles to any > particular group be honoured? I can't help you here, as I only use two posting styles, the default and one in a mail group. I am not sure if you can change a posting style after the message buffer is created. > However, it is still impossible to enter a group that has no emails in > it I'm still at a loss here. I thought about it a bit and I think the reason I never had this problem might have been that I imported a _lot_ of mail from pine. > I have overcome this by putting a 'dummy' placeholder in the group > when I subscribe to it, which then creates the group on disk As long as there is a workaround. > I have (setq nnmail-expiry-target "nnml:mail.graveyard") and trying to > delete the articles/emails in this group with the Backend 'd' merely > appends the whole contents af the group to be appended again to the > end Something that can be taken care of in group parameters? Not sure, as I just hold on to the messages for x days and then they are deleted or not, depending on the group. If you check this graveyard every x days, why don't you just set the expiry target to delete and set the wait time to something reasonable. > Also could you confirm that my Expirable items will disappear in one > week as per the HowTo's I have read, or is there something needs to be > done specifically to enable this instead of relying upon what is said > to be the Default of seven days? I have never seen anything in gnus that was set as the default that did not work as advertised. > BROWSING and TEXT RENDERING > > This appears in my configs: > ;; I WOULD LIKE IT TO ALWAYS USE W3M For browsing _and_rendering? > ;;(setq browse-url-browser-function 'netscape) You do know that this line is commented, right? I am not sure if this is what you intend. Check the documentation for browse-url-browser-function. The argument should be a function. If you are trying to use w3m to browse, set it to w3m-browse-url. > ;; (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m) If you wish w3m to render the html mail, this is correct, after you uncomment. > (setq nnmail-text-html-renderer 'w3m) I think this might be from a version of gnus earlier than the one that I am using. I looked in my .gnus.el file, one that I have been using for several versions and I do not see this variable anywhere.Also, trying to look up that variable returns nothing. > Now leaving (setq browse-url-browser-function 'netscape) uncommented > causes gnus to growl at me > > Changing it to 'Opera produces similar results > > Attempting to modify the code in browse-url.el to work for Opera > produced no results so, since Netscape, Mozilla, FireFox, ThunderBird > and their ilk are banished from my system, I symlinked Opera to > Netscape and can now merrily view URLs contained in inbound items Hmmm, forget what I said above. could it be that 'netscape' is a function in browse-url that calls netscape with the url? > However, I had no luck with rerndering HTML which is embedded in an > item. W3M is installed and M-x w3m callable. Beautiful, but how do I > get it to render the HTML text within an article or email? Uncomment (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m) and all should be fine. > Otherwise I really do not need it since the item can be saved with a > few keystrokes as an .HTML file and viewed by clicking it in > FileRunner, my X replacement for mc Too many steps. Not very emacsy. > Been there and got the T-Shirt > > I never ask for help until I have INFOd, RTFMd, HOWTO'd, SEARCHd > and IRCd, you may be sure of that. Right on! Good to see that there are still people that do not expect all the answers without putting forth any effort. > So in actual fact, gnus, erc, w3m and the ide are up and running much > more than acceptably and I am most happy with the results I have > obtained from the hours spent upon the project. I am now really into > the fine tuning stage This stage never ends. I use emacs for the _only_ interface to my computer and have been for a while. Before that I used it for text and mail/news. I still customize things on a pretty regular basis. You are not static, why should your editor be? take care, rdc -- Robert D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please ignore previous fortune. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
