# HG changeset patch # User Dave Love # Date 978654441 0 # Node ID 726bca563fbfdaf529decf84308a19e85a519036 # Parent 7202c4acf7a5068725854989598a019f22fedd23 Speling &c. diff -r 7202c4acf7a5 -r 726bca563fbf man/gnus.texi --- a/man/gnus.texi Thu Jan 04 21:02:24 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/gnus.texi Fri Jan 05 00:27:21 2001 +0000 @@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ * Compilation:: How to speed Gnus up. * Mode Lines:: Displaying information in the mode lines. * Highlighting and Menus:: Making buffers look all nice and cozy. -* Buttons:: Get tendonitis in ten easy steps! +* Buttons:: Get tendinitis in ten easy steps! * Daemons:: Gnus can do things behind your back. * NoCeM:: How to avoid spam and other fatty foods. * Undo:: Some actions can be undone. @@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ me. Usage of the patent (@dfn{Master/Slave Relationships In Computer Applications}) will be much more expensive, of course.) -Anyways, you start one Gnus up the normal way with @kbd{M-x gnus} (or +Anyway, you start one Gnus up the normal way with @kbd{M-x gnus} (or however you do it). Each subsequent slave Gnusae should be started with @kbd{M-x gnus-slave}. These slaves won't save normal @file{.newsrc} files, but instead save @dfn{slave files} that contain information only @@ -4560,9 +4560,9 @@ (@code{gnus-summary-mail-forward}). If no prefix is given, the message is forwarded according to the value of (@code{message-forward-as-mime}) and (@code{message-forward-show-mml}); if the prefix is 1, decode the -message and forward directly inline; if the prefix is 2, foward message +message and forward directly inline; if the prefix is 2, forward message as an rfc822 MIME section; if the prefix is 3, decode message and -forward as an rfc822 MIME section; if the prefix is 4, foward message +forward as an rfc822 MIME section; if the prefix is 4, forward message directly inline; otherwise, the message is forwarded as no prefix given but use the flipped value of (@code{message-forward-as-mime}). By default, the message is decoded and forwarded as an rfc822 MIME section. @@ -4694,9 +4694,9 @@ If no prefix is given, the message is forwarded according to the value of (@code{message-forward-as-mime}) and (@code{message-forward-show-mml}); if the prefix is 1, decode the -message and forward directly inline; if the prefix is 2, foward message +message and forward directly inline; if the prefix is 2, forward message as an rfc822 MIME section; if the prefix is 3, decode message and -forward as an rfc822 MIME section; if the prefix is 4, foward message +forward as an rfc822 MIME section; if the prefix is 4, forward message directly inline; otherwise, the message is forwarded as no prefix given but use the flipped value of (@code{message-forward-as-mime}). By default, the message is decoded and forwarded as an rfc822 MIME section. @@ -5147,7 +5147,7 @@ previous (unread) article, I'm sure there are people that want that as well. -Multiply these five behaviours with five different marking commands, and +Multiply these five behaviours by five different marking commands, and you get a potentially complex set of variable to control what each command should do. @@ -5432,7 +5432,7 @@ Threading is done by looking at the @code{References} headers of the articles. In a perfect world, this would be enough to build pretty trees, but unfortunately, the @code{References} header is often broken -or simply missing. Weird news propagation excarcerbates the problem, +or simply missing. Weird news propagation exacerbates the problem, so one has to employ other heuristics to get pleasing results. A plethora of approaches exists, as detailed in horrible detail in @pxref{Customizing Threading}. @@ -6132,7 +6132,7 @@ To turn caching on, set @code{gnus-use-cache} to @code{t}. By default, all articles ticked or marked as dormant will then be copied over to your local cache (@code{gnus-cache-directory}). Whether this -cache is flat or hierarchal is controlled by the +cache is flat or hierarchical is controlled by the @code{gnus-use-long-file-name} variable, as usual. When re-selecting a ticked or dormant article, it will be fetched from the @@ -7209,8 +7209,8 @@ @findex gnus-article-strip-banner @cindex banner @cindex OneList -@cindex stripping advertisments -@cindex advertisments +@cindex stripping advertisements +@cindex advertisements Strip the banner specified by the @code{banner} group parameter (@code{gnus-article-strip-banner}). This is mainly used to hide those annoying banners and/or signatures that some mailing lists and moderated @@ -7933,7 +7933,7 @@ default charsets to be used when reading these groups. In addition, some people do use soi-disant @sc{mime}-aware agents that -aren't. These blitely mark messages as being in @code{iso-8859-1} even +aren't. These blithely mark messages as being in @code{iso-8859-1} even if they really are in @code{koi-8}. To help here, the @code{gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets} variable can be used. The charsets that are listed here will be ignored. The variable can be set @@ -9686,7 +9686,7 @@ @end lisp You can, however, use any mail select method (@code{nnml}, -@code{nnmbox}, etc.). @code{nnfolder} is a quite likeable select method +@code{nnmbox}, etc.). @code{nnfolder} is a quite likable select method for doing this sort of thing, though. If you don't like the default directory chosen, you could say something like: @@ -10054,7 +10054,7 @@ complicated---say, for instance, that you want to read from the @sc{nntp} server @samp{news.funet.fi} on port number 13, which hangs if queried for @sc{nov} headers and has a buggy select. Ahem. -Anyways, if you had to specify that for each group that used this +Anyway, if you had to specify that for each group that used this server, that would be too much work, so Gnus offers a way of naming select methods, which is what you do in the server buffer. @@ -10173,7 +10173,7 @@ @findex gnus-server-regenerate-server Request that the server regenerate all its data structures (@code{gnus-server-regenerate-server}). This can be useful if you have -a mail backend that has gotten out of synch. +a mail backend that has gotten out of sync. @end table @@ -10666,7 +10666,7 @@ Opens a connection to a server over a @dfn{secure} channel. To use this you must have SSLay installed (@uref{ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSL}, and you also need -@file{ssl.el} (from the W3 distributeion, for instance). You then +@file{ssl.el} (from the W3 distribution, for instance). You then define a server as follows: @lisp @@ -10745,7 +10745,7 @@ @item nntp-record-commands @vindex nntp-record-commands If non-@code{nil}, @code{nntp} will log all commands it sends to the -@sc{nntp} server (along with a timestep) in the @samp{*nntp-log*} +@sc{nntp} server (along with a timestamp) in the @samp{*nntp-log*} buffer. This is useful if you are debugging a Gnus/@sc{nntp} connection that doesn't seem to work. @@ -10762,7 +10762,7 @@ contain very big articles---@samp{alt.binaries.pictures.furniture}, for instance. -Anyways, you just specify @code{nnspool} as the method and @code{""} (or +Anyway, you just specify @code{nnspool} as the method and @code{""} (or anything else) as the address. If you have access to a local spool, you should probably use that as the @@ -13840,7 +13840,7 @@ this concept of marking articles @code{Deleted} which doesn't actually delete them, and this (marking them @code{Deleted}, that is) is what nnimap does when you delete a article in Gnus (with @kbd{G DEL} or -similair). +similar). Since the articles aren't really removed when we mark them with the @code{Deleted} flag we'll need a way to actually delete them. Feel like @@ -13855,7 +13855,7 @@ @table @code @item always -The default behaviour, delete all articles marked as "Deleted" when +The default behavior, delete all articles marked as "Deleted" when closing a mailbox. @item never Never actually delete articles. Currently there is no way of showing @@ -13980,8 +13980,8 @@ crossposting enabled. In that case, all matching rules will "win". This variable can also have a function as its value, the function will -be called with the headers narrowed and should return a group where it -thinks the article should be splitted to. See @code{nnimap-split-fancy}. +be called with the headers narrowed and should return a group to where +it thinks the article should be split. See @code{nnimap-split-fancy}. The splitting code tries to create mailboxes if it need too. @@ -14012,7 +14012,7 @@ @vindex nnimap-split-predicate Mail matching this predicate in @code{nnimap-split-inbox} will be -splitted, it is a string and the default is @samp{UNSEEN UNDELETED}. +split; it is a string and the default is @samp{UNSEEN UNDELETED}. This might be useful if you use another @sc{imap} client to read mail in your inbox but would like Gnus to split all articles in the inbox @@ -14522,7 +14522,7 @@ If/when using something like the above, be aware that there are many misconfigured systems/mailers out there and so an article's date is not always a reliable indication of when it was posted. Hell, some people -just don't give a damm. +just don't give a damn. The above predicates apply to *all* the groups which belong to the category. However, if you wish to have a specific predicate for an @@ -14633,7 +14633,7 @@ @item Use @code{normal} score files -If you dont want to maintain two sets of scoring rules for a group, and +If you don't want to maintain two sets of scoring rules for a group, and your desired @code{downloading} criteria for a group are the same as your @code{reading} criteria then you can tell the agent to refer to your @code{normal} score files when deciding what to download. @@ -14921,7 +14921,7 @@ Gnus keep track of flag changes when reading nnimap groups under the Agent by default. When you plug back in, by default Gnus will check if -you have any changed any flags and ask if you wish to synchronize theese +you have any changed any flags and ask if you wish to synchronize these with the server. This behaviour is customizable with @code{gnus-agent-synchronize-flags}. @@ -17694,7 +17694,7 @@ Right. @vindex gnus-carpal -Well, you can make Gnus display bufferfuls of buttons you can click to +Well, you can make Gnus display buffers full of buttons you can click to do anything by setting @code{gnus-carpal} to @code{t}. Pretty simple, really. Tell the chiropractor I sent you. @@ -18324,7 +18324,7 @@ has only an effect if `gnus-picons-display-where' has value `article'. If @code{nil}, display the picons in the @code{From} and -@code{Newsgroups} lines. This is the defailt. +@code{Newsgroups} lines. This is the default. @item gnus-picons-clear-cache-on-shutdown @vindex gnus-picons-clear-cache-on-shutdown @@ -18536,7 +18536,7 @@ put it in your @code{From} header of all your news articles. (I've chosen @samp{larsi@@trym.ifi.uio.no}, but for many addresses on the form @samp{larsi+usenet@@ifi.uio.no} will be a better choice. Ask your -sysadm whether your sendmail installation accepts keywords in the local +sysadmin whether your sendmail installation accepts keywords in the local part of the mail address.) @lisp @@ -19043,7 +19043,7 @@ introduced may confuse casual users. New features are frequently introduced, fiddled with, and judged to be found wanting, and then either discarded or totally rewritten. People reading the mailing list -usually keep up with these rapid changes, whille people on the newsgroup +usually keep up with these rapid changes, while people on the newsgroup can't be assumed to do so.