Editing KILL Files

The command M-K in Subject Mode and Group Mode (gnus-Subject-edit-global-kill and gnus-Group-edit-global-kill) pops up an Emacs buffer for editing a global KILL file. A global KILL file is created in the directory specified by the variable gnus-article-save-directory (default to `~/News'), and its file name is specified by the variable gnus-kill-file-name (default to `KILL').

The command M-k in Subject Mode and Group Mode (gnus-Subject-edit-local-kill and gnus-Group-edit-local-kill) pops up an Emacs buffer for editing a local KILL file. A local KILL file for a newsgroup news.group is created as `news.group.KILL' in the directory specified by the variable gnus-article-save-directory if the variable gnus-use-long-file-name is non-nil. Otherwise, if the variable gnus-use-long-file-name is nil, the file is created as `news/group/KILL' under the same directory.

The major mode of these buffers is KILL-File Mode. This mode is specialized for editing Emacs lisp programs the same as Emacs-Lisp Mode. In addition to Emacs-Lisp Mode, the following commands are available:

C-c C-k C-s

Insert a template of a kill command on subject (gnus-Kill-file-kill-by-subject).

C-c C-k C-a

Insert a template of a kill command on author (gnus-Kill-file-kill-by-author).

C-c C-a

Apply current buffer being edited to selected newsgroup (gnus-Kill-file-apply-buffer).

C-c C-e

Apply sexp before point in current buffer to selected newsgroup (gnus-Kill-file-apply-last-sexp).

C-c C-c

Save the KILL file and then return to the previous buffer (gnus-Kill-file-exit).

C-c C-i

Read Info on KILL file (gnus-Info-find-node). See section Texinfo Manual, to prepare an Info file of GNUS.

If KILL-File Mode is invoked from Subject Mode by the command gnus-Subject-edit-local-kill or gnus-Subject-edit-global-kill, the commands C-c C-k C-s and C-c C-k C-a (gnus-Kill-file-kill-by-subject and gnus-Kill-file-kill-by-author) insert a kill command on the subject and author of an article where the point is on, respectively. Otherwise, a template of a kill command is inserted.

The commands C-c C-a and C-c C-e (gnus-Kill-file-apply-buffer and gnus-Kill-file-apply-last-sexp) can be used to test kill commands being edited in current buffer. The kill commands are applied to current newsgroup.