Re: Improve G m to make it more user friendly?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> The new `G m' command looks nice to me, but...
>
> Try the following:
>
> mv .newsrc.eld newsrc.eld
> mv .newsrc newsrc
> mv .gnus.el gnus.el
> emacs -f gnus
>
> Then, how do we make the nnml:inbox group?  Typing `G m
> nnml:inbox RET' creates the `inbox' group, not `nnml:inbox'.
> Because the nnml server has not been activated yet, maybe.  In
> other words, should new users type `M-x gnus-group-make-group'
> instead of `G m'?  :)

I think Katsumi's point is well taken.  I just stumbled into this
after a recent cvs update.

I wanted to create an nnml group but I see no way to do that with the
new `G m' code.

Typing `G m' gives me a `Group:' prompt.  Already its more confusing
than the old way.  As I recall the old way prompt had the word `name'
in it somewhere, so it was clear this was the final name being
requested.  Skipping that for a moment.

Neither nnml:bperl<RET> nor bperl<RET> results in the desired
nnml:bperl.
I don't think this is really usable as it is.