Selecting a Newsgroup

If you successfully move the point to a desired newsgroup, you can select the newsgroup to read articles by typing SPC (gnus-Group-read-group) or = (gnus-Group-select-group) on that line.

SPC

Select the newsgroup, and then select the first unread article automatically (gnus-Group-read-group).

=

Select the newsgroup (gnus-Group-select-group). No article is selected automatically.

To prevent automatic selection of the first unread article even when the newsgroup is selected by the command SPC (gnus-Group-read-group), set the variable gnus-auto-select-first to nil. If you want to change the value of the variable according to the selected newsgroups, set the variable in the hook gnus-Select-group-hook.

If unread articles are contained in a selected newsgroup, they become ready to be read. Otherwise, all articles in the newsgroup become ready to be read. All articles in a newsgroup can be selected unconditionally by giving a prefix argument to the commands SPC and = (gnus-Group-read-group and gnus-Group-select-group).

If the number of articles being selected is larger than the variable gnus-large-newsgroup, the number of articles actually selected is asked for. If the given value n is positive, the last n articles will be selected. If n is negative, the first n articles will be selected. An empty string means to select all articles.

See section Common Variables, and see section Function Hooks, for more information on customization.