Re: Gnus Describe Group and Gnus Describe All Groups

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>
>>>> 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?