From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84943 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Remove server from gnus Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 18:08:02 +0800 Message-ID: <87ppexci2l.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87oaukkp45.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87r3zebtj1.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410775466 25004 80.91.229.3 (15 Sep 2014 10:04:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:04:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33187@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 15 12:04:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XTT8t-0000Iy-8P for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:04:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XTT8K-0002X0-6n; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XTT8H-0002Wn-In for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:03:41 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XTT8F-0005os-B9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:03:41 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XTT8D-0008Hy-A8 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:03:37 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XTT8B-0008V1-Lk for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:03:35 +0200 Original-Received: from 114.248.26.115 ([114.248.26.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:03:35 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 114.248.26.115 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:03:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.248.26.115 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uaEGESpDeNFEfwqNp3/OBwwh0QU= X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84943 Archived-At: Rainer M Krug writes: > Steinar Bang writes: > >>>>>>> Eric S Fraga : >> >>> I would like to know the answer to this as well. I have a number of >>> servers that are there for historical reasons and I also cannot seem >>> to be able to expunge them. >> >> You have to kill all groups from that server. Then go to the server >> buffer and do a 'k' to kill the server. >> >> It may be that you have to exit gnus after killing all of the groups, >> and restart gnus, possibly in a new emacs. Ditto for the servers in the >> server buffer, I don't remember exactly. >> >> But I have succeeded in ditching e.g. the now no-longer-existing >> news.opera.no server from all of my gnusen (the most problematic was >> getting gnus-sync to lose the server's groups). >> > > Thanks - I'll try it when I have a dead server sitting in gnus again. > > Rainer It seems like if, at some point, we got around to removing the distinction between `gnus-select-method' and `gnus-secondary-select-methods', and just had a single list of servers, that might be a good opportunity to make this process less terrible.