Hi,
As with every Emacs user, I have a need to use Emacs for EVERYTHING,
because is can, and it’s the best tool for the job, whatever the job may
be (OK, a bit of an exaggeration).
This led me to work out how to use Gnus, as a news-reader, and is what
I’m going to be using to view/participate in the forums from now on.
But in learning how to use Gnus, I had to do a lot of research on
various web-sites and even asked for help in the #emacs & #gnus IRC
channels.
To make this process less painful for other users, I decided to create a
Gnus page on the openSUSE Wiki, I also greatly expanded the Emacs page
and included some basic key commands, to give the new user the
information needed to start using Emacs.
I’ll be adding to / maintaining / updating both pages whenever I have
time, please take a look and give me any feedback & ideas of what else
I should add.
The pages are:
At the moment I am thinking of adding:
- A section on using Gnus for reading E-mail
- Adding additional news sources
- Additional customisation of the ‘~/.gnus.el’ file
- A section on using Emacs for writing documents in LaTeX
- A brief guide to setting up using Rmail to read E-mail
- A section on using W3M in Emacs for web browsing
- A section on Dired in Emacs
- A section on customisation of the ‘.emacs’ file
- A section on Ispell spell checker in Emacs
- A section on Major modes
- Expanding the lookup table
Thank you.
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Regards,
Barry Nichols