Re: self contained nnfolder

[Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>
>> Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca> wrote:
>> > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>>>> gnus-secondary-select-methods should
>>>> also be nil, or, if you want your foreign nnfolder server to also be
>>>> secondary, use '("nnfolder:").  
>>> 
>>> This didn't work.  I got an error that "nnfolder:" wasn't a list.
>>
>> Hm.  Well, do you really need it to be both foreign and secondary?
>> If it's foreign only, then Gnus won't check it for new groups, I
>> think.  If it's secondary only, then you have to change it by editing
>> your .gnus, not in the *Server* buffer.
>
> I think that the following is permissible:
>
> (1) Create a server foo via the server buffer.
> (2) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods "foo")

I tried the following settings for g-secondary-select-methods:

      '((nnfolder "")) 
      '("nnfolder:")
      '("")
      nil

The first one works for me in all the cases I tested.  The second
never works.  The third and forth gave me errors when "nnfolder:" was
used in my .newsrc as the server for each group in gnus-newsrc-alist,
but is ok when "" is used as the server for each group.  Here's an
example of the backtrace I get when I start gnus with
gnus-secondary-select-methods set to nil and one of my groups
(nnfolder:house) has "nnfolder:" as its method:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
  signal(error ("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist"))
  error("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
  gnus-server-opened((nil ""))
  gnus-activate-group("nnfolder:house" scan)
  gnus-get-unread-articles(2)
  gnus-setup-news(nil 2 t)
  byte-code("\b„\x0e\0	„\x0e\0Æ ˆ‚O\0ÇÈ!ˆÉ\n!\x13\f„\x1e\0\rƒ!\0Ê ˆ\x0e\x19ƒ.\0Ë ˆÌÍÎ\"ˆÏÐ\x0e\x1a\b#ˆÇÑ!ˆÒ ˆÓ\x0e\x1a!ˆÔ ˆÕÖ!ˆ× ˆÇØ!ˆÐ‡" [dont-connect did-connect gnus-startup-file gnus-current-startup-file gnus-slave gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-group-quit gnus-run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-dribble-read-file bbb-login add-hook gnus-summary-mode-hook gnus-grouplens-mode gnus-setup-news nil gnus-setup-news-hook gnus-start-draft-setup gnus-group-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gnus-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook gnus-use-grouplens level] 4)
  gnus-1(2 t nil)
  gnus(2 t nil)
  gnus-no-server-1(nil nil)
  gnus-no-server(nil)
* call-interactively(gnus-no-server)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

If I change nnfolder:house's method to "" this error goes away.
This seems pretty strange to me.

So now I've made all my groups use "" and have
gnus-secondary-select-methods set to '("").

-- 
Dan Christensen
jdc+news@uwo.ca