Re: keeping killed groups out of gnus-group-jump-to-group

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>> Very simply: I'm using a mairix server, and ido for all autocompletion.
>> The mairix server includes a complete list of all my nnmail groups,
>> killed, and they all show up when I hit 'j' to jump to a group, usually
>> *before* the real nnmail group, which makes it hard to use. I don't know
>> where the list of groups is created -- is there a way I can have it
>> filter out killed groups?
>
> I don't know either. You could use an advice to at least filter the
> nnmairix groups:
>
> (defadvice gnus-group-completing-read (before remove-nnmairix-groups activate)
>   (unless collection
>     (mapatoms
>      (lambda (g)
>        (unless (string-match nnmairix-group-prefix (symbol-name g))
> 	 (push g collection)))
>      gnus-active-hashtb)))
>

Thanks! I was definitely expecting to have to advise something…

However, just putting this in my .gnus.el and evaluating it doesn't seem
to do anything, do have to put it somewhere special?