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diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi b/doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi index b5bb75f7284..7bd3e4ac7fa 100644 --- a/doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi +++ b/doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi @@ -266,9 +266,9 @@ and how to prevent it? @subsubheading Answer This message means that the last time you used Gnus, it -wasn't properly exited and therefor couldn't write its -informations to disk (e.g. which messages you read), you -are now asked if you want to restore those informations +wasn't properly exited and therefore couldn't write its +information to disk (e.g. which messages you read), you +are now asked if you want to restore that information from the auto-save file. To prevent this message make sure you exit Gnus @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ However, the first thing to do is to tell Gnus in which way it should store the mail, in Gnus terminology which back end to use. Gnus supports many different back ends, the most commonly used one is nnml. It stores every mail in one file -and is therefor quite fast. However you might prefer a one +and is therefore quite fast. However you might prefer a one file per group approach if your file system has problems with many small files, the nnfolder back end is then probably the choice for you. To use nnml add the following to ~/.gnus.el: @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ As you might have guessed, if you want nnfolder, it's @end example @noindent -Now we need to tell Gnus, where to get it's mail from. If +Now we need to tell Gnus, where to get its mail from. If it's a POP3 server, then you need something like this: @example @@ -1104,11 +1104,11 @@ I don't like the way the Summary buffer looks, how to tweak it? @subsubheading Answer You've got to play around with the variable -gnus-summary-line-format. It's value is a string of +gnus-summary-line-format. Its value is a string of symbols which stand for things like author, date, subject etc. A list of the available specifiers can be found in the manual node "Summary Buffer Lines" and the often forgotten -node "Formatting Variables" and it's sub-nodes. There +node "Formatting Variables" and its sub-nodes. There you'll find useful things like positioning the cursor and tabulators which allow you a summary in table form, but sadly hard tabulators are broken in 5.8.8. @@ -1838,7 +1838,7 @@ inconvenient since you are not displaying the found mail in Gnus. Here comes nnir into action. Nnir is a front end to search engines like swish-e or swish++ and others. You index your mail with one of those search -engines and with the help of nnir you can search trough +engines and with the help of nnir you can search through the indexed mail and generate a temporary group with all messages which met your search criteria. If this sound cool to you get nnir.el from @@ -2190,7 +2190,7 @@ Starting Gnus is really slow, how to speed it up? @subsubheading Answer -The reason for this could be the way Gnus reads it's +The reason for this could be the way Gnus reads its active file, see the node "The Active File" in the Gnus manual for things you might try to speed the process up. An other idea would be to byte compile your ~/.gnus.el (say |