3. Summary Buffer

A line for each article is displayed in the summary buffer. You can move around, read articles, post articles and reply to articles.

The most common way to a summary buffer is to select a group from the group buffer (see section 2.3 Selecting a Group).

You can have as many summary buffers open as you wish.

3.1 Summary Buffer Format		Deciding how the summary buffer is to look.
3.2 Summary Maneuvering		Moving around the summary buffer.
3.3 Choosing Articles		Reading articles.
3.4 Scrolling the Article		Scrolling the current article.
3.5 Reply, Followup and Post		Posting articles.
3.6 Delayed Articles		Send articles at a later time.
3.7 Marking Articles		Marking articles as read, expirable, etc.
3.8 Limiting		You can limit the summary buffer.
3.9 Threading		How threads are made.
3.10 Sorting the Summary Buffer		How articles and threads are sorted.
3.11 Asynchronous Article Fetching		Gnus might be able to pre-fetch articles.
3.12 Article Caching		You may store articles in a cache.
3.13 Persistent Articles		Making articles expiry-resistant.
3.14 Article Backlog		Having already read articles hang around.
3.15 Saving Articles		Ways of customizing article saving.
3.16 Decoding Articles		Gnus can treat series of (uu)encoded articles.
3.17 Article Treatment		The article buffer can be mangled at will.
3.18 MIME Commands		Doing MIMEy things with the articles.
3.19 Charsets		Character set issues.
3.20 Article Commands		Doing various things with the article buffer.
3.21 Summary Sorting		Sorting the summary buffer in various ways.
3.22 Finding the Parent		No child support? Get the parent.
3.23 Alternative Approaches		Reading using non-default summaries.
3.24 Tree Display		A more visual display of threads.
3.25 Mail Group Commands		Some commands can only be used in mail groups.
3.26 Various Summary Stuff		What didn't fit anywhere else.
3.27 Exiting the Summary Buffer		Returning to the Group buffer, or reselecting the current group.
3.28 Crosspost Handling		How crossposted articles are dealt with.
3.29 Duplicate Suppression		An alternative when crosspost handling fails.
3.30 Security		Decrypt and Verify.
3.31 Mailing List		Mailing list minor mode.