From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Where is gnus-simplify-group-name?
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:16:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fwiz206f.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lisshr63.fsf@zelenka.enovance.com> (Julien Danjou's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:24:20 +0200")
on Tue Oct 11 2011, Julien Danjou <julien-AT-danjou.info> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11 2011, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
>> I think there still will be two ways, as long as we're allowing people
>> sometimes to type "INBOX" instead of "nnimap+imap.foo.com:INBOX". And
>> I think we want to support that, right?
>
> No. As soon as you got more than one account, "INBOX" can be 2 different
> things, so you need to prefix everything.
> What you are suggesting is to keep primary/secondary which is something
> that confuses all new Gnus users, this is why we decided to remove this
> way of doing things.
>
> I don't think there is any point of having just "INBOX" anywhere.
Well, if you don't have two INBOXes, it's a lot easier just to say
"INBOX." That said, I understand your argument. Like I said, if you're
up for a rewrite, please be my guest.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-11 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-08 0:47 Dave Abrahams
2011-10-10 8:23 ` Julien Danjou
2011-10-10 22:53 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-11 8:24 ` Julien Danjou
2011-10-11 12:16 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
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