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? > > No, not in the first case gnus-group-describe-all-groups > I am seeing a list of all the groups, including those > I am not subscribed to,
FWIW, I think this is sub-optimal behavior, as well -- at the very least, there should be two different paths for seeing descriptions of groups you're subscribed to, and all groups on a server. [...] > There is one error message in the messages buffer: > > Reading descriptions file via nntp... > Opening nntp server on news.aioe.org...done > Reading descriptions file...done > Reading descriptions file via nnfolder... > Couldn't read newsgroups descriptions I think this just means there are no group descriptions on an nnfolder server. > Opening nntp server on news.gmane.io... > Opening nntp server on news.gmane.io...done > Reading descriptions file...done > Reading descriptions file via nntp... > Opening nntp server on news.mozilla.org...done > Reading descriptions file...done 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. Eric _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
