The gnus-visual variable controls most of the Gnus-prettifying
aspects.  If nil, Gnus won't attempt to create menus or use fancy
colors or fonts.  This will also inhibit loading the `gnus-vis.el'
file.
This variable can be a list of visual properties that are enabled. The following elements are valid, and are all included by default:
| group-highlight | Do highlights in the group buffer. | 
| summary-highlight | Do highlights in the summary buffer. | 
| article-highlight | Do highlights in the article buffer. | 
| highlight | Turn on highlighting in all buffers. | 
| group-menu | Create menus in the group buffer. | 
| summary-menu | Create menus in the summary buffers. | 
| article-menu | Create menus in the article buffer. | 
| browse-menu | Create menus in the browse buffer. | 
| server-menu | Create menus in the server buffer. | 
| score-menu | Create menus in the score buffers. | 
| menu | Create menus in all buffers. | 
So if you only want highlighting in the article buffer and menus in all buffers, you could say something like:
(setq gnus-visual '(article-highlight menu))
If you want highlighting only and no menus whatsoever, you'd say:
(setq gnus-visual '(highlight))
If gnus-visual is t, highlighting and menus will be used
in all Gnus buffers.
Other general variables that influence the look of all buffers include:
| gnus-mouse-face | 
This is the face (i.e., font) used for mouse highlighting in Gnus.  No
mouse highlights will be done if  | 
There are hooks associated with the creation of all the different menus:
| gnus-article-menu-hook | Hook called after creating the article mode menu. | 
| gnus-group-menu-hook | Hook called after creating the group mode menu. | 
| gnus-summary-menu-hook | Hook called after creating the summary mode menu. | 
| gnus-server-menu-hook | Hook called after creating the server mode menu. | 
| gnus-browse-menu-hook | Hook called after creating the browse mode menu. | 
| gnus-score-menu-hook | Hook called after creating the score mode menu. | 
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