From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75119 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Streamlining first-time Gnus usage Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:29:40 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <871v5h3lab.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292517092 28578 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2010 16:31:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:31:32 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23474@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 16 17:31:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTGjo-0007iP-1u for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:31:28 +0100 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 1PTGjH-000334-Tz; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:30:55 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PTGjG-00032r-Jk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:30:54 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTGjC-00054R-DW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:30:54 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTGjB-0003uX-MD for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:30:49 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTGj9-0007G5-OV for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:30:47 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:30:47 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:30:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEXiw/HVteT11/xpSnq4 mMfKqdief6yJF3H7AAACZUlEQVQ4jV1Uy3LbMAwENVbORCP6TCtN740zOkcNyHPUkLp3JPP/P6EL Wn4kGGtkCQR3sQuKyrFGKWUppUcc+hrEb2SJW5dD5HSfKMMaSxGRWJpdlpyTSJASyIyGXc54NfOM m0SRzNnSuoacHSO63nsiJ0kAWCitKWMFNnhflMKgb8syEI/uX8fWcO6mvZu4BnVMeXwcH+duLcv+ 9J7iSVLmkZHo/z69PS2/Psr7/ndaPl9eQLcBZ2rX/fDw6P6k/ek1LJ/y2m8JsrjjZ/yhH8mQ9Xjy O6LjLcoWy/G4FOqv4fVCJ9iFdkyyymWlBO1cIySm+bLRsECxnEPKUyoxEmqJAG8suoPOtp1UOoAP G94lFjUGWlGFP2gd+ca4sgYVlKiUWFZJ7Cye7ZSDdRButrDvzraNN1ELzgcCySJwykmeGMCprJHJ gEBDLdF9jWqlVqrh5zZP8dIt9eYbht8qgGHI70wO7EROEuOaJHSJPlrHLqUJKmGOgoJnl+dMF7D+ O7iapH98o2vINpdWNhLYgEXS+ANjCkfcRP3zRsV/ab6nZqdyQ2mZGtL5rhohcTYJm8XA4Em6JHAX qTlcu1Lw5sbqYCxP0E8E82m9ZkyKcj8+X4Kmrk4xdFGJk2DuS54yZOpstbVlBj0HWryrrfY/yVR3 mJPqpB7ABKHbfAx6cHDVezmDQ1XHxhEMxcYPFVXLM3i2VsFrnOnchPamOSdaLbsmnpurgnhrmEpc RTByUSY9/HlSk3V4/Vb0rOerr4r4apRcBnoot8AJoXpMtCt8ETAOsqoDWAv9z6e+q6owPhJ5xtQt /wHFnNhygOOVOgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Electrelane's _Singles, B-Sides & Live_: "More Than This (Live)" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OvALQG+41sRweAdc2evWE6222M4= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75119 Archived-At: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Would it be possible to display abbreviated prefixes, akin to how ERC > abbreviates channel names? That's definitely a possibility. A typical group name is nnimap+imap.gmail.com:INBOX which could be displayed as, er... uhm... imap+gmail:INBOX ? The heuristic here is that you drop the "nn", the ".com" suffix (well, all suffixes), and known stuff like "imap", "news", "nntp" from the name before displaying. > How about a declarative approach, like: > > (define-gnus-methods '((nnimap ...) ...)) > > I think it’d make it harder to shoot oneself in the foot, e.g., when > re-evaluating ~/.gnus. That would kinda be the same as (setq gnus-methods '((nnimap ...) (nntp ...))) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen