From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75098 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Streamlining first-time Gnus usage Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:22:04 +0100 Message-ID: <871v5h3lab.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292505785 32505 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2010 13:23:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:23:05 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23453@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 16 14:23:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTDnP-0003jG-G4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:22:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PTDmk-0001dK-Vm; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:22:19 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PTDmj-0001d6-8j for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:22:17 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTDmi-00009N-3x for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:22:17 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTDmh-0000Pd-DC for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:22:15 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTDmh-0003N6-1z for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:22:15 +0100 Original-Received: from yoda.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:22:15 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by yoda.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:22:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yoda.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 26 Frimaire an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2aoFc6R1IDw+P9ugxYGZcdYNlpU= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75098 Archived-At: Hi, >>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com")) >> >> FWIW, it took me several weeks until I understand what was the >> differences between gnus-select-method and >> gnus-secondary-select-methods. That could be a starting point. > > After the `g' rework, the only difference real is in the group name. Would it be possible to display abbreviated prefixes, akin to how ERC abbreviates channel names? > But we could recommend doing stuff like > > (gnus-add-method '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com")) > (gnus-add-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org")) How about a declarative approach, like: (define-gnus-methods '((nnimap ...) ...)) I think it’d make it harder to shoot oneself in the foot, e.g., when re-evaluating ~/.gnus. Thanks, Ludo’.