Re: swapping which account is my "primary" select method

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>]

On Nov 19, 2017, at 07:11, Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> wrote:

> Ken writes:
> 
>> Is there a nice, user-friendly way I’m overlooking to swap the
>> “primary” and a secondary select method around, keeping everything
>> working (or even everything but the nnvirtual regexps), and without
>> losing any state?
> 
> I don't think there is.
> 
> What I would suggest you consider, is to stop having a primary select
> method.

Interesting, thanks! That occurred to me but I wasn’t sure if it would work. Obviously, I overlooked the existence of nnnil. Is there any special status given to “native” groups that I might still care about, or does it all Just Work?

> I.e. set gnus-select-method to '(nnnil) [at the point where you don't
> need that account any more], and have all your select methods secondary,
> and therefore qualified and "equal”.

I kind of like how this matches what I’ve seen in some of the other MUAs I’ve been using recently, though Gnus has quite a way to go before its account configuration is as friendly as some of the others. (Maybe I should put a few ideas on the “Gnus Wish List” emacswiki page. :-) 

Ken