Chapter 3: The Summary Buffer

A line for each article is displayed in the summary buffer. You can move around, read articles, post articles and reply to articles.

The most common way to a summary buffer is to select a group from the group buffer (see Selecting a Group).

You can have as many summary buffers open as you wish.

Summary Buffer Format Deciding how the summary buffer is to look.

Summary Maneuvering Moving around the summary buffer.

Choosing Articles Reading articles.

Paging the Article Scrolling the current article.

Canceling and Superseding ``Whoops, I shouldn't have called him that.''

Marking Articles Marking articles as read, expirable, etc.

Limiting You can limit the summary buffer.

Threading How threads are made.

Sorting How articles and threads are sorted.

Asynchronous Fetching Gnus might be able to pre-fetch articles.

Article Caching You may store articles in a cache.

Persistent Articles Making articles expiry-resistant.

Article Backlog Having already read articles hang around.

Saving Articles Ways of customizing article saving.

Decoding Articles Gnus can treat series of (uu)encoded articles.

Article Treatment The article buffer can be mangled at will.

Article Commands Doing various things with the article buffer.

Summary Sorting Sorting the summary buffer in various ways.

Finding the Parent No child support? Get the parent.

Alternative Approaches Reading using non-default summaries.

Tree Display A more visual display of threads.

Mail Group Commands Some commands can only be used in mail groups.

Various Summary Stuff What didn't fit anywhere else.

Exiting the Summary Buffer Returning to the Group buffer.

Crosspost Handling How crossposted articles are dealt with.

Duplicate Suppression An alternative when crosspost handling fails.