From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87830 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: swapping which account is my "primary" select method Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:10:26 -0800 Message-ID: <8760a3v465.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <337C011F-9607-42DB-A7D3-28F2F5E84715@raeburn.org> <87tvxqwjrw.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <79953329-0EE8-4530-BD5E-449688CD1539@raeburn.org> <87o9nwagil.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87d14c207n.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <874lpoeli9.fsf@yale.edu> <87ine4zn8k.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87vai4o8cg.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <87bmjwwlpf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511291476 16247 195.159.176.226 (21 Nov 2017 19:11:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:11:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m36044@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Nov 21 20:11:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from mxfilter-048035.atla03.us.yomura.com ([107.189.48.35]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eHDwo-0003WV-IS for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:11:06 +0100 X-Yomura-MXScrub: 1.0 Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (unknown [129.7.128.208]) by mxfilter-048035.atla03.us.yomura.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id bc22d9f6-ceef-11e7-8154-b499baabecb2; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1eHDwY-0004d3-V5; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:10:51 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1eHDwW-0004cJ-6h for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:10:48 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1eHDwU-0004x7-W0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:10:48 -0600 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1eHDwT-0002d2-Ju for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:10:45 +0100 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eHDwF-0001V3-3M for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:10:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:dyn4K0ZcjSRxSCDN5+/3B3lwV4M= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87830 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > On Mo, Nov 20 2017, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >> Andreas Schwab writes: >> >>> On Nov 20 2017, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>> >>>> I think it would be a good idea to allow a user-settable group name >>>> alias, as one of the group parameters. >>> >>> You can shorten the name by using nntp-address explicitly in the select >>> method: >>> >>> (nntp "gmane" (nntp-address "news.gmane.org")) >> >> Good point! I had forgotten that. Still, a group alias would be useful. > > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Group Line Specification") ] > | ‘C’ > | Group comment (*note Group Parameters::) or group name if there is > | no comment element in the group parameters. > `---- And of course, Gnus can already do it.