Re: keeping killed groups out of gnus-group-jump-to-group

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>>> Very simply: I'm using a mairix server, and ido for all autocompletion.
>>> The mairix server includes a complete list of all my nnmail groups,
>>> killed, and they all show up when I hit 'j' to jump to a group, usually
>>> *before* the real nnmail group, which makes it hard to use. I don't know
>>> where the list of groups is created -- is there a way I can have it
>>> filter out killed groups?
>>
>> I don't know either. You could use an advice to at least filter the
>> nnmairix groups:
>>
>> (defadvice gnus-group-completing-read (before remove-nnmairix-groups activate)
>>   (unless collection
>>     (mapatoms
>>      (lambda (g)
>>        (unless (string-match nnmairix-group-prefix (symbol-name g))
>> 	 (push g collection)))
>>      gnus-active-hashtb)))
>>
>
> Thanks! I was definitely expecting to have to advise something…
>
> However, just putting this in my .gnus.el and evaluating it doesn't seem
> to do anything, do have to put it somewhere special?

Found the problem: =nnmairix-group-prefix= is the prefix of the
directory where mairix keeps its results, "zz_mairix" in my case, not
the prefix of the bogus mairix server groups, which is "nnml+mairix:".
Using a literal string instead of =nnmairix-group-prefix= made this
work.

Thanks again,
Eric