Richmond <[email protected]> writes: > Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes: > >> 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? > > OK I have upgraded to 27, and that has fixed the problem, although there > is a non-existant group called 215 with the description 'Newsgroup > descriptions in form "group description" '
Yup, I noticed the same thing. I think I actually introduced this error with an earlier change, and will look into fixing it. > Thanks for your help! My pleasure. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
