Sams Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours

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Q Is it possible to change the backend later, if I find that the backend I have chosen does not fit me?

A Yes. In the next hour the doc backend is described. Using this backend you can copy your messages from one group to another.

Q Is it possible to ask Gnus not to show the backend name in the Group buffer?

A Yes, this is described in the next hour.

Q When I'm writing a message, I would like to use auto-fill mode. How do I do that?

A You can enable auto-fill mode as usual by pressing M-x and typing auto-fill-mode, but I guess you are asking how you can enable it by default, right? Okay, insert the following into your .Gnus file:


(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

Q Okay, I followed your advice about starting auto-fill mode. It's behaving strangely, though. When I type a line and it is broken, it inserts a greater-than sign ( >) at the beginning of the line. Why?! (I might add that this happens only when I reply to a letter.)

A The reason for this is that adaptive filling (see Hour 12, "Visible Editing Utilities") thinks that the line is an item, due to the special symbol (the > sign) that is used to quote the letter you are replying to. There are two different solutions to this problem:


(sams-gnus-filling)

This starts auto filling in the message buffer, but disables adaptive filling when sending replies.

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