Re: gnus request scan issue : backtrace

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:23:38 +0200 Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> wrote: 

RR> trying to localise spam splitting to only my main imap server I
RR> modified my imap select method to this:-

RR>       (setq nnimap-split-fancy (quote (: spam-split)))

RR>       (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
RR>                    `(nnimap "riley"
RR>                             (nnimap-address "offlineimap")
RR>                             (nnir-search-engine imap)
RR>                             (nnimap-stream network)
RR>                             (nnimap-split-methods (quote nnimap-split-fancy))
RR>                             ))

(This is a very common confusion when you're learning ELisp.  It took me
a while too.)

(quote x) and 'x are usually the same thing in ELisp.  You don't want to
quote inside a quoted expression:

(setq nnimap-split-fancy (quote (: spam-split)))

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             `(nnimap "riley"
                      (nnimap-address "offlineimap")
                      (nnir-search-engine imap)
                      (nnimap-stream network)
                      (nnimap-split-methods nnimap-split-fancy)
                      ))

What you had before was "set the nnimap-split-method to the list of the
symbol 'quote followed by the symbol 'nnimap-split-fancy".

Ted