From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: Mail first, news second
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:21:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5lubu1l.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y68y84sun2u.fsf@mint-square.mit.edu>
David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU> writes:
> The short form '(nntp "news.example.com") works fine without
> explicitly specifying nntp-address and nntp-port-number, but you
> will wind up with longer group names
> (nntp+news.example.com:gnu.emacs.gnus).
Yes. I don't mind the long names all that much, though. What I do
mind is that I can't add a new newsgroup by just pressing `j
<groupname> RET'.
> I don't know off hand if you can have servers with different
> backends but the same name, but in that case you could have a setup
> like
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")
> gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '((nnml "")
> (nntp "" (nntp-address "news.example.com"))))
>
> to be able to refer to both nnml:mail.spam and nntp:gnu.emacs.gnus.
> I just suck it up and use the long name; tab-completion is easy.
That's exactly the problem: I *don't* have tab completion for any new
group on that server. I get it only for existing groups, adding new
groups is harder.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-24 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-14 14:07 Hrvoje Niksic
2005-10-14 19:42 ` Alexander Kotelnikov
2005-10-17 16:26 ` David Z Maze
2005-10-24 19:21 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
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