Function: gnus-summary-post-news

gnus-summary-post-news is an autoloaded, interactive and byte-compiled function defined in gnus-msg.el.gz.

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(gnus-summary-post-news &optional ARG)

Documentation

Start composing a message. Post to the current group by default.

If ARG, don't do that. If ARG is 1, prompt for a group name to post to. Depending on the selected group, the message might be either a mail or a news.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus-msg.el.gz
(defun gnus-summary-post-news (&optional arg)
  "Start composing a message.  Post to the current group by default.
If ARG, don't do that.  If ARG is 1, prompt for a group name to post to.
Depending on the selected group, the message might be either a mail or
a news."
  (interactive "P" gnus-summary-mode gnus-article-mode)
  ;; Bind this variable here to make message mode hooks work ok.
  (let ((gnus-newsgroup-name
	 (if arg
	     (if (= 1 (prefix-numeric-value arg))
		 (gnus-group-completing-read "Newsgroup" nil
					     (gnus-read-active-file-p))
	       "")
	   gnus-newsgroup-name))
	;; make sure last viewed article doesn't affect posting styles:
	(gnus-article-copy))
    (gnus-post-news 'post gnus-newsgroup-name)))