gnus: Drafts
5.7 Drafts
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If you are writing a message (mail or news) and suddenly remember that
you have a steak in the oven (or some pesto in the food processor, you
craaazy vegetarians), you’ll probably wish there was a method to save
the message you are writing so that you can continue editing it some
other day, and send it when you feel its finished.
Well, don’t worry about it. Whenever you start composing a message
of some sort using the Gnus mail and post commands, the buffer you get
will automatically associate to an article in a special “draft” group.
If you save the buffer the normal way (‘C-x C-s’, for instance), the
article will be saved there. (Auto-save files also go to the draft
group.)
The draft group is a special group (which is implemented as an
‘nndraft’ group, if you absolutely have to know) called
‘nndraft:drafts’. The variable ‘nndraft-directory’ says where ‘nndraft’
is to store its files. What makes this group special is that you can’t
tick any articles in it or mark any articles as read—all articles in the
group are permanently unread.
If the group doesn’t exist, it will be created and you’ll be
subscribed to it. The only way to make it disappear from the Group
buffer is to unsubscribe it. The special properties of the draft group
comes from a group property (
Group Parameters), and if lost the
group behaves like any other group. This means the commands below will
not be available. To restore the special properties of the group, the
simplest way is to kill the group, using ‘C-k’, and restart Gnus. The
group is automatically created again with the correct parameters. The
content of the group is not lost.
When you want to continue editing the article, you simply enter the
draft group and push ‘D e’ (‘gnus-draft-edit-message’) to do that. You
will be placed in a buffer where you left off.
Rejected articles will also be put in this draft group (
Rejected Articles).
If you have lots of rejected messages you want to post (or mail)
without doing further editing, you can use the ‘D s’ command
(‘gnus-draft-send-message’). This command understands the
process/prefix convention (Process/Prefix). The ‘D S’ command
(‘gnus-draft-send-all-messages’) will ship off all messages in the
buffer.
If you have some messages that you wish not to send, you can use the
‘D t’ (‘gnus-draft-toggle-sending’) command to mark the message as
unsendable. This is a toggling command.
Finally, if you want to delete a draft, use the normal ‘B DEL’
command (Mail Group Commands).
Info Catalog
gnus: Posting Styles
gnus: Composing Messages
gnus: Rejected Articles