Re: ANNOUNCE: nndb 0.2

[Thomas Neumann <tom@smart.ruhr.de>]

 > Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@fuentez.com> writes:
 > 
 > > "G m", group name, nntp, server.
 > > 
 > > wait for the timeout.
 > > 
 > > "G e", then change the line like:
 > > 
 > > (nntp "arls2007")
 > > 
 > > to 
 > > 
 > > (nntp "arls2007"
 > >       (nntp-port-number 9000))

This works, though it's ugly.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
 > Go to the server buffer:  `^'.  `a nntp RET db RET' to add a new
 > server.  `e' to edit it to:
 > 
 >  (nntp "db"
 > 	(nntp-address "whatever")
 >         (nntp-port-number 9000))
 > 
 > Now when you `G m' a group, you can name "db" as the select method,
 > and everything should work fine.

Smart move. That's what I came up with, too, but it does not
work. I can create and edit a server as you describe above, but
when I try to create a new group (G m) and try to specify `db' as it's
select method, I get an Emacs error "Cannot open loadfile: db". I
tried to specify "db" literally -- including the doublequotes -- but
GNUS won't even let me.

This is with sgnus-0.59 on Emacs 19.30.

-t