Re: Gnus keybinding problem

[Andrew M. Bishop]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk (Andrew M. Bishop) writes:
> 
> > ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> >
> >> amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk (Andrew M. Bishop) writes:
> >> 
> >> > ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> >> >
> >> >> > I use the topical format for the Group buffer and it looks like this.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > [Gnus]
> >> >> >    [mail] ...
> >> >> >    [news] ...
> >> >> >    [drafts] ...

> > The problem that I can see (and I believe to be a bug) is:
> >
> > The function bound to M-g claims to be gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group
> 
> You saw this because Topic minor mode is not active, i.e. "Topic" is
> shown not on the mode line.  After typing `t' (or M-x gnus-topic-mode
> RET), you will see that the function bound to M-g claims to be
> gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic, because now the Topic minor mode
> is active, also you will see "Topic" on the mode line.

The topic minor mode is active.  It says Topic on the modeline, the
format is topic mode (as in the quoted section of my original e-mail
above) and running M-x gnus-topic-mode puts me back to normal mode.

> > Why does pressing the key invoke a different function from that
> > reported by C-h k M-g or C-h b ?  If it reported the correct function
> > then I would not have had the problem.  This makes it a bug.
> 
> It is all because there is a Topic minor mode.

The keypresses above should include the minor mode bindings.

-- 
Andrew.
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