From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38387 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: gnus-declare-backend in the manual Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:45:45 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174259 22148 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:24:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:24:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 21184 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2001 04:45:46 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 28 Aug 2001 04:45:46 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3727 invoked by uid 500); 28 Aug 2001 04:46:07 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38387 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38387 I think "Hooking New Backends Into Gnus" node of the manual could mention that the call to gnus-declare-backend belongs in the backend's .el file. This was a detail I didn't figure out when I started nnmaildir, and at the time, none of the standard backends used it, so there was no example to work from. I guess gnus-declare-backend should appear in the index, too, pointing to this node. Also, how does one decide which abilities ought to be listed? E.g., it seems that 'respool corresponds straightforwardly to nnchoke-request-{move,accept}-article. But if so, why bother duplicating this information? paul