Robert Girault <r...@dev.null> writes: > Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > >> Robert Girault <r...@dev.null> writes: >> >> [...] >> >>> This brings me to a point I've been trying to set up Gnus for. I'd like >>> to keep, for a while, a history of everything I wrote. Saving messages >>> locally isn't good enough because the context is gone. The context is >>> the thread. >>> >>> When I enter a group, I feel lost. I think it's slrn that I've used in >>> the past. When I'd enter a news group, I'd have a clear idea of what's >>> happening---which threads are growing and which are not. >> >> I looked up slrn, and interestingly the author seemed to have written it >> because he found Gnus too slow! > > I can't compare it myself. I run them on different systems. > >> I don't know how slrn does it, so I don't know exactly what effect >> you're after. Are you using threading? I've got `gnus-show-threads' set >> to t and `gnus-fetch-old-headers' set to 'some, and that shows me just >> as much context as I want. > > Surprisingly perhaps, I feel better without threading, so I turned it > off. When I wanna see a parent message, I say ^. > >>> Also, my way of working is to write articles, but only post them after >>> I've reviewed them. I haven't yet acquired skills enough to do that >>> with Gnus. >>> >>> I know it's possible to save them as drafts and send them later, but I'd >>> like to distinguish between partially written messages from messages >>> queued for delivery. >> >> You can use the agent for this. When you're finished with a message, hit >> "C-c C-j" (gnus-delay-article), and you can choose a future date at >> which the message will send. It won't actually send at that date unless >> you run the `gnus-delay-send-queue' command in the *Group* buffer. That >> might do what you want, though I don't know how easy it is to edit >> messages once you've added them to the queue. > > The manual says it will send if I check for new messages, but I'm > thinking I must run gnus-delay-initialize. I won't turn it on for now.
Oops, that's true, I'd forgotten that part. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
