Re: Where is gnus-simplify-group-name?

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Mon Oct 10 2011, Julien Danjou <julien-AT-danjou.info> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 08 2011, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
>> I was writing some code that opened groups today and I was disturbed to
>> find that Gnus would do something different if I spelled the same group
>> in two different ways.  My `gnus-select-method' is
>>
>>   (nnimap "LocalIMAP" 
>>           (nnimap-address "localhost") (nnimap-user "dave")
>>           (nnimap-server-port 9143) (nnimap-stream network))
>
> IIUC, this is due to the primary/secondary methods mechanism, which add
> a prefix when methods are secondaries.
>
> Last time we spoke about that, the consensus was to remove this
> mechanism so there's not two ways of naming groups like you point out.

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?

> But we never started doing it mainly because it can be tricky to not
> no break working setups.
>
> Maybe that's time to do it.

Providing the group name normalization function, and using it where it
counts, would be less disruptive.  And I predict you'll want one even if
you do get rid of the primary/secondary distinction.  However, if you're
up for a big rewrite, all I can say is, "go for it!" :-)

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Dave Abrahams
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