From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82319 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: What is a "virtual" group? Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:53:08 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347753272 26497 80.91.229.3 (15 Sep 2012 23:54:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:54:32 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30585@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 16 01:54:36 2012 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 1TD2C2-0007U1-HQ for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:54:34 +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 1TD2Ax-00081K-P2; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:53:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TD2Aw-000816-3t for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:53:26 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TD2At-0001T6-18 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:53:25 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TD2Aq-0002eP-LV for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:53:20 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TD2Ar-0006q2-Lk for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:53:21 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:53:21 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:53:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uROb7wl1EKetwy1E14nGFcnMk4c= X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82319 Archived-At: I'm not referring here to nnvirtual, but to the virtual property as it appears in `gnus-valid-select-methods' or in (gnus-declare-backend "nnir" 'mail 'virtual) which is done in nnir.el The context for my question is http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82136, where I'm wondering whether it's OK to label "nndoc" groups as virtual Answers to the other questions at the end of that article would also be most appreciated: * Should gnus-warp-to-article really be restricting itself to virtual groups? * Should I be doing something different in `gnus-goto-article' to build a group with my message in it? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost