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? _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
