What Gnus does when it encounters a new group is determined by the
gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method
variable.
This variable should contain a function. This function will be called with the name of the new group as the only parameter.
Some handy pre-fab functions are:
gnus-subscribe-zombies
gnus-subscribe-randomly
gnus-subscribe-alphabetically
gnus-subscribe-hierarchically
gnus-subscribe-alphabetically
is slight.
gnus-subscribe-alphabetically
will subscribe new groups in a strictly
alphabetical fashion, while this function will enter groups into its
hierarchy. So if you want to have the `rec' hierarchy before the
`comp' hierarchy, this function will not mess that configuration
up. Or something like that.
gnus-subscribe-interactively
gnus-subscribe-killed
gnus-subscribe-topics
subscribe
topic
parameter (see section 2.16.5 Topic Parameters). For instance, a subscribe
topic parameter that looks like
"nnslashdot"will mean that all groups that match that regex will be subscribed under that topic. If no topics match the groups, the groups will be subscribed in the top-level topic.
A closely related variable is
gnus-subscribe-hierarchical-interactive
. (That's quite a
mouthful.) If this variable is non-nil
, Gnus will ask you in a
hierarchical fashion whether to subscribe to new groups or not. Gnus
will ask you for each sub-hierarchy whether you want to descend the
hierarchy or not.
One common mistake is to set the variable a few paragraphs above
(gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method
) to
gnus-subscribe-hierarchical-interactive
. This is an error. This
will not work. This is ga-ga. So don't do it.
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