Re: Defining a secondary nntp server for gnus

Re: Defining a secondary nntp server for gnus

[Miles Bader]

daniel@bigwalter.net (Daniel Jensen) writes:
> I think this will look for the group on your primary server. Try to
> prefix it with "nntp+news.gmane.org:".

Incidentally, this is one of the things I find the most annoying about
gnus secondary servers/select-methods -- it's _very_ common that the
group names are entirely disjoint (e.g. gmane always uses "gmane.") or
simple to disambiguate (I call all my mail groups "mail." and I do not
care about usenet "mail." groups -- I always want my group names to take
precedence), but still I always have to use the stupid (long) prefix for
everything except the primary method...

It would be really nice if there were a setting in gnus which would
essentially allow me to map group names _without_ a select-method prefix
to particular prefixes.

E.g. something like,

   (setq gnus-select-method-mapping-alist 
         '(("^gmane\\." . "nntp+news.gmane.org")
           ("^mail\\." . "nnml")))

Is there already such a function or setting in Gnus?

[I primarily want this for interactive use -- I suppose it would make
sense to not do such mappings for group names stored in files etc.]

-Miles

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