From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38278 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: *Server* buffer problems when adding server parameters Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 01:00:28 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174169 21530 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:22:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:22:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 449 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2001 23:01:03 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (195.204.10.139) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Aug 2001 23:01:03 -0000 Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA18463 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 01:01:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 998694059 982 195.204.10.148 (24 Aug 2001 23:00:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Aug 2001 23:00:59 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Paula Frazer's _Indoor Universe_: "Everywhere" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen