Re: *Server* buffer problems when adding server parameters

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> But servers belonging to different backends can have the same name;
> the name alone is not unique.

No, they can't, and yes they are.  Or, to put it another way -- yes,
they can, and no, they aren't.¹

> The *Server* buffer disambiguates them in the style Kai used.

The server buffer doesn't display the name of the server at all.  :-)

It all depends on what the definition of "server" is.  (Or perhaps the
definition of "definition" is.)  When Gnus says "... server ...", it's
talking about the designator for a select method.  However, select
methods also contains something that's called a "server" (that is, the
address of an external instance to contact, in nntp's case).  That has
nothing to do with anything.  The server is the designator of the
select method.

If you want the server name to be displayed in the server buffer, you
have to use the %n spec.

¹) I've just written a WAV sound file editor mode for Emacs.  It must
be affecting my mind in strange ways.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen