Re: Gnus keybinding problem

[ShengHuo ZHU]

amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk (Andrew M. Bishop) writes:

> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
>
>> amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk (Andrew M. Bishop) writes:
>> 
>> > ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
>> >
>> >> amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk (Andrew M. Bishop) writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
>> >> >
>> >> >> > I use the topical format for the Group buffer and it looks like this.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > [Gnus]
>> >> >> >    [mail] ...
>> >> >> >    [news] ...
>> >> >> >    [drafts] ...
>
>> > The problem that I can see (and I believe to be a bug) is:
>> >
>> > The function bound to M-g claims to be gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group
>> 
>> You saw this because Topic minor mode is not active, i.e. "Topic" is
>> shown not on the mode line.  After typing `t' (or M-x gnus-topic-mode
>> RET), you will see that the function bound to M-g claims to be
>> gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic, because now the Topic minor mode
>> is active, also you will see "Topic" on the mode line.
>
> The topic minor mode is active.  It says Topic on the modeline, the
> format is topic mode (as in the quoted section of my original e-mail
> above) and running M-x gnus-topic-mode puts me back to normal mode.
>
>> > Why does pressing the key invoke a different function from that
>> > reported by C-h k M-g or C-h b ?  If it reported the correct function
>> > then I would not have had the problem.  This makes it a bug.
>> 
>> It is all because there is a Topic minor mode.
>
> The keypresses above should include the minor mode bindings.

What does `C-h b' (describe-bindings) report in the Group buffer?

ShengHuo