Re: gnus gnub question

[Tassilo Horn]

notbob@bb.nothome.com writes:

Hi!

> According to O'Reilly's Learning Gnu Emacs, DEL is the key to scroll
> an article backwards.  It doesn't work for me.  I get this in the
> mini-buffer:
>
> Buffer is read-only: #<buffer *Summary gnu.emacs.gnus*>

Hm, works for me.  What does `C-h k DEL' on an article in Summary (or
inside the article buffer) say?

> The questions are, when I catch-up a group and then re-enter,
> specifying n number of articles to bring up, all the articles are
> colored cyan and have an O to the left of the article.  What does this
> mean?

I think, the color shows the article's score.  The O means "old".

> Also, in summary buffer, what do article titles bracketed with
> greater/lesser brackets mean ( < subject > )?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Loose Threads") ]
| `gnus-summary-make-false-root'
|      If non-`nil', Gnus will gather all loose subtrees into one big tree
|      and create a dummy root at the top.  (Wait a minute.  Root at the
|      top?  Yup.)  Loose subtrees occur when the real root has expired,
|      or you've read or killed the root in a previous session.
| 
|      When there is no real root of a thread, Gnus will have to fudge
|      something.  This variable says what fudging method Gnus should use.
|      There are four possible values:
| 
|     `adopt'
|           Gnus will make the first of the orphaned articles the parent.
|           This parent will adopt all the other articles.  The adopted
|           articles will be marked as such by pointy brackets (`<>')
|           instead of the standard square brackets (`[]').  This is the
|           default method.
| 
|     `dummy'
|           [...]
`----

HTH,
Tassilo