Re: gnus-subscribe-topics

[Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+ding@gate450.dyndns.org>]

I wrote:

> Xavier Maillard writes:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>>
>>> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Subscription Methods") ]
>>> | What Gnus does when it encounters a new group is determined by the
>>> | `gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method' variable.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> "when it encounters a new group" is not the case in your situation.
>>> This variable is relevant only if a new newsgroup is created on the
>>> server.
>>
>> Can't this behaviour be changed for any group (new or existing
>> but never subscribed) ? What is the workaround ? Currently, I did
>> not subcribe to any nnimap groups (I have 4 dozens of them
>> pending) since I do not want to manually fill them under the
>> right topic.
>
> I've modified my copy of Gnus to use gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method
> when subscribing from a Browse Server buffer a long time ago.  I didn't
> propose to include this patch though because the default value of
> g-s-n-m is rather inappropriate for explicitly subscribing groups.
>
> Attached is a version that introduces a
> gnus-browse-subscribe-newsgroup-method variable instead.  OK to commit
> to No Gnus?  I vaguely remeber some discussion about a feature freeze
> (Reiner?).

It looks more like thawing period at the moment, so I pushed this in.

regards,
andreas