Re: swapping which account is my "primary" select method

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>
>> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: 
>> 
>>> Ken writes: 
>>> 
>>>> Is there any special status given to “native” groups that I 
>>>> might still care about, or does it all Just Work? 
>>> 
>>> Not that I remember, I've been running with '(nnnil) as 
>>> primary-select-method for years. 
>> 
>> I think the only real difference is that groups belonging to the 
>> primary method show up in the Group buffer *without* their 
>> server prefix string.  So: 
>> 
>> primary method:
>> gmane.emacs.gnus.general
>> 
>> secondary method:
>> news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.gnus.general
>> 
>> AFAICT, that's the only user-visible difference. 
>
> That annoyed me quite a bit so I dealt with it by creating a file 
> with the substitutions of the names that I want separated by 
> semicolons, for example

That must have *really* annoyed you :)

I think it would be a good idea to allow a user-settable group name
alias, as one of the group parameters.

Eric