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GNU Info (gnus)Selecting a GroupSelecting a Group ================= `<SPC>' Select the current group, switch to the summary buffer and display the first unread article (`gnus-group-read-group'). If there are no unread articles in the group, or if you give a non-numerical prefix to this command, Gnus will offer to fetch all the old articles in this group from the server. If you give a numerical prefix N, N determines the number of articles Gnus will fetch. If N is positive, Gnus fetches the N newest articles, if N is negative, Gnus fetches the `abs(N)' oldest articles. Thus, `SPC' enters the group normally, `C-u SPC' offers old articles, `C-u 4 2 SPC' fetches the 42 newest articles, and `C-u - 4 2 SPC' fetches the 42 oldest ones. When you are in the group (in the Summary buffer), you can type `M-g' to fetch new articles, or `C-u M-g' to also show the old ones. `<RET>' Select the current group and switch to the summary buffer (`gnus-group-select-group'). Takes the same arguments as `gnus-group-read-group'--the only difference is that this command does not display the first unread article automatically upon group entry. `M-<RET>' This does the same as the command above, but tries to do it with the minimum amount of fuzz (`gnus-group-quick-select-group'). No scoring/killing will be performed, there will be no highlights and no expunging. This might be useful if you're in a real hurry and have to enter some humongous group. If you give a 0 prefix to this command (i.e., `0 M-<RET>'), Gnus won't even generate the summary buffer, which is useful if you want to toggle threading before generating the summary buffer (Note: Summary Generation Commands). `M-<SPC>' This is yet one more command that does the same as the <RET> command, but this one does it without expunging and hiding dormants (`gnus-group-visible-select-group'). `M-C-<RET>' Finally, this command selects the current group ephemerally without doing any processing of its contents (`gnus-group-select-group-ephemerally'). Even threading has been turned off. Everything you do in the group after selecting it in this manner will have no permanent effects. The `gnus-large-newsgroup' variable says what Gnus should consider to be a big group. This is 200 by default. If the group has more (unread and/or ticked) articles than this, Gnus will query the user before entering the group. The user can then specify how many articles should be fetched from the server. If the user specifies a negative number (`-n'), the `n' oldest articles will be fetched. If it is positive, the `n' articles that have arrived most recently will be fetched. `gnus-auto-select-first' control whether any articles are selected automatically when entering a group with the <SPC> command. `nil' Don't select any articles when entering the group. Just display the full summary buffer. `t' Select the first unread article when entering the group. `best' Select the highest scored article in the group when entering the group. This variable can also be a function. In that case, that function will be called to place point on a subject line, and/or select some article. Useful functions include: `gnus-summary-first-unread-subject' Place point on the subject line of the first unread article, but don't select the article. `gnus-summary-first-unread-article' Select the first unread article. `gnus-summary-best-unread-article' Select the highest-scored unread article. If you want to prevent automatic selection in some group (say, in a binary group with Huge articles) you can set this variable to `nil' in `gnus-select-group-hook', which is called when a group is selected. automatically generated by info2www version 1.2.2.9 |