Table of Contents

1. Starting Gnus

1.1 Finding the News
1.2 The First Time
1.3 The Server is Down
1.4 Slave Gnusiï
1.5 Fetching a Group
1.6 New Groups
1.7 Startup Files
1.8 Auto Save
1.9 The Active File
1.10 Startup Variables

2. The Group Buffer

2.1 Group Buffer Format

2.1.1 Group Line Specification
2.1.2 Group Modeline Specification
2.1.3 Group Highlighting

2.2 Group Maneuvering
2.3 Selecting a Group
2.4 Subscription Commands
2.5 Group Levels
2.6 Group Score
2.7 Marking Groups
2.8 Foreign Groups
2.9 Group Parameters
2.10 Listing Groups
2.11 Sorting Groups
2.12 Group Maintenance
2.13 Browse Foreign Server
2.14 Exiting Gnus
2.15 Group Topics

2.15.1 Topic Variables
2.15.2 Topic Commands
2.15.3 Topic Topology

2.16 Misc Group Stuff

2.16.1 Scanning New Messages
2.16.2 Group Information
2.16.3 File Commands

3. The Summary Buffer

3.1 Summary Buffer Format

3.1.1 Summary Buffer Lines
3.1.2 Summary Buffer Mode Line
3.1.3 Summary Highlighting

3.2 Summary Maneuvering
3.3 Choosing Articles
3.4 Scrolling the Article
3.5 Reply, Followup and Post

3.5.1 Summary Mail Commands
3.5.2 Summary Post Commands

3.6 Canceling Articles
3.7 Marking Articles

3.7.1 Unread Articles
3.7.2 Read Articles
3.7.3 Other Marks
3.7.4 Setting Marks
3.7.5 Setting Process Marks

3.8 Limiting
3.9 Threading

3.9.1 Customizing Threading
3.9.2 Thread Commands

3.10 Sorting
3.11 Asynchronous Article Fetching
3.12 Article Caching
3.13 Persistent Articles
3.14 Article Backlog
3.15 Saving Articles
3.16 Decoding Articles

3.16.1 Uuencoded Articles
3.16.2 Shared Articles
3.16.3 PostScript Files
3.16.4 Decoding Variables

3.16.4.1 Rule Variables
3.16.4.2 Other Decode Variables
3.16.4.3 Uuencoding and Posting

3.16.5 Viewing Files

3.17 Article Treatment

3.17.1 Article Highlighting
3.17.2 Article Hiding
3.17.3 Article Washing
3.17.4 Article Buttons
3.17.5 Article Date

3.18 Summary Sorting
3.19 Finding the Parent
3.20 Alternative Approaches

3.20.1 Pick and Read
3.20.2 Binary Groups

3.21 Tree Display
3.22 Mail Group Commands
3.23 Various Summary Stuff

3.23.1 Summary Group Information
3.23.2 Searching for Articles
3.23.3 Really Various Summary Commands

3.24 Exiting the Summary Buffer

4. The Article Buffer

4.1 Hiding Headers
4.2 Using MIME
4.3 Customizing Articles
4.4 Article Keymap
4.5 Misc Article

5. Composing Messages

5.1 Mail
5.2 Post
5.3 Posting Server
5.4 Mail and Post
5.5 Archived Messages

6. Select Methods

6.1 The Server Buffer

6.1.1 Server Buffer Format
6.1.2 Server Commands
6.1.3 Example Methods
6.1.4 Creating a Virtual Server
6.1.5 Servers and Methods
6.1.6 Unavailable Servers

6.2 Getting News

6.2.1 NNTP
6.2.2 News Spool

6.3 Getting Mail

6.3.1 Getting Started Reading Mail
6.3.2 Splitting Mail
6.3.3 Mail Backend Variables
6.3.4 Fancy Mail Splitting
6.3.5 Mail and Procmail
6.3.6 Incorporating Old Mail
6.3.7 Expiring Mail
6.3.8 Duplicates
6.3.9 Not Reading Mail
6.3.10 Choosing a Mail Backend

6.3.10.1 Unix Mail Box
6.3.10.2 Rmail Babyl
6.3.10.3 Mail Spool
6.3.10.4 MH Spool
6.3.10.5 Mail Folders

6.4 Other Sources

6.4.1 Directory Groups
6.4.2 Anything Groups
6.4.3 Document Groups
6.4.4 SOUP

6.4.4.1 SOUP Commands
6.4.4.2 SOUP Groups
6.4.4.3 SOUP Replies

6.5 Combined Groups

6.5.1 Virtual Groups
6.5.2 Kibozed Groups

7. Scoring

7.1 Summary Score Commands
7.2 Group Score Commands
7.3 Score Variables
7.4 Score File Format
7.5 Score File Editing
7.6 Adaptive Scoring
7.7 Followups To Yourself
7.8 Scoring Tips
7.9 Reverse Scoring
7.10 Global Score Files
7.11 Kill Files
7.12 GroupLens

7.12.1 Using GroupLens
7.12.2 Rating Articles
7.12.3 Displaying Predictions
7.12.4 GroupLens Variables

8. Various

8.1 Process/Prefix
8.2 Interactive
8.3 Formatting Variables
8.4 Windows Configuration
8.5 Compilation
8.6 Mode Lines
8.7 Highlighting and Menus
8.8 Buttons
8.9 Daemons
8.10 NoCeM
8.11 Picons

8.11.1 Picon Basics
8.11.2 Picon Requirements
8.11.3 Easy Picons
8.11.4 Hard Picons
8.11.5 Picon Configuration

8.12 Various Various

9. The End
10. Appendices

10.1 History

10.1.1 Why?
10.1.2 Compatibility
10.1.3 Conformity
10.1.4 Emacsen
10.1.5 Contributors
10.1.6 New Features
10.1.7 Newest Features

10.2 Terminology
10.3 Customization

10.3.1 Slow/Expensive NNTP Connection
10.3.2 Slow Terminal Connection
10.3.3 Little Disk Space
10.3.4 Slow Machine

10.4 Troubleshooting
10.5 A Programmer's Guide to Gnus

10.5.1 Backend Interface

10.5.1.1 Required Backend Functions
10.5.1.2 Optional Backend Functions
10.5.1.3 Writing New Backends

10.5.2 Score File Syntax
10.5.3 Headers
10.5.4 Ranges
10.5.5 Group Info
10.5.6 Emacs/XEmacs Code
10.5.7 Various File Formats

10.5.7.1 Active File Format
10.5.7.2 Newsgroups File Format

10.6 Emacs for Heathens

10.6.1 Keystrokes
10.6.2 Emacs Lisp

10.7 Frequently Asked Questions

10.7.1 Installation
10.7.2 Customization
10.7.3 Reading News
10.7.4 Reading Mail

11. Index
12. Key Index