From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38532 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Strange server names confusion Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:23:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174380 23038 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:26:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:26:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 2710 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2001 08:23:16 -0000 Original-Received: from lie.extundo.com (195.42.214.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Sep 2001 08:23:16 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (jas@localhost) by lie.extundo.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f838NC512226; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:23:12 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lie.extundo.com: jas owned process doing -bs Original-To: Paul Jarc In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 19 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38532 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38532 On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Paul Jarc wrote: > > ("quimby" nntp "quimby" (nntp-address "news.gnus.org")) > > > > I think that this means that both the name and the address are > > "quimby". Therefore, "nntp:quimby" should work. But it doesn't, only > > "quimby" works. > > I think that means that either I've misunderstood and misexplained > things, or there's a bug in Gnus. Try this: > (eq (gnus-server-to-method "quimby") (gnus-server-to-method "nntp:quimby")) > If they are eq, then presumably Gnus is using something other than > gnus-server-to-method to interpret the server names in group infos - > maybe this is a bug. If they are not eq, then I've misunderstood > something. Don't forget `gnus-method-equal', `gnus-methods-equal-p' etc. `eq' should probably not be used for comparing methods, I think.