Re: Primary select method switch

[Andrew Cohen <acohen@ust.hk>]

>>>>> "dvl" == Didier Verna <didier@didierverna.net> writes:

    dvl>   Hello, for several decades, I had an nntp select method as
    dvl> the primary one. Now the server is dead and I wanted to make my
    dvl> gmail account the main one.  So I (naively) set
    dvl> gnus-select-method to the nnimap server, removed it from
    dvl> gnus-secondary-select-methods, and restarted Gnus.

    dvl> Now I have all my gmail groups duplicated. The old ones (named
    dvl> nnimap+gmail:***) with all their marks are still here, but for
    dvl> each one, I now also have a *** (no prefix) one, without any
    dvl> marks.

    dvl> Is there a way to recover from this mess ?

Depends a bit on what you want.  One big difference between primary and
secondary is the prefixing (as you  discovered). Mostly there isn't much
reason to have a primary select method. A common configuration is to
eliminate the primary, and then put everything in secondary. To
eliminate the primary just set it to 'nnil:

     (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))


You should be able to do this (and put your gmail groups back in
secondary) and remove the unwanted unprefixed (i.e. primary) groups.


-- 
Andrew Cohen