Re: Gnus Describe Group and Gnus Describe All Groups

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> 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?
>
> No, not in the first case gnus-group-describe-all-groups
> I am seeing a list of all the groups, including those
> I am not subscribed to,

FWIW, I think this is sub-optimal behavior, as well -- at the very
least, there should be two different paths for seeing descriptions of
groups you're subscribed to, and all groups on a server.

[...]

> There is one error message in the messages buffer:
>
> Reading descriptions file via nntp...               
> Opening nntp server on news.aioe.org...done         
> Reading descriptions file...done                    
> Reading descriptions file via nnfolder...           
> Couldn't read newsgroups descriptions               

I think this just means there are no group descriptions on an nnfolder
server.

> Opening nntp server on news.gmane.io...             
> Opening nntp server on news.gmane.io...done         
> Reading descriptions file...done                    
> Reading descriptions file via nntp...               
> Opening nntp server on news.mozilla.org...done      
> Reading descriptions file...done                    

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.


Eric