From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36313 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] primary / secondary methods differences Date: 22 May 2001 12:20:09 -0400 Sender: prj@multivac.cwru.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171919 7930 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 242 invoked by alias); 22 May 2001 16:20:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 237 invoked from network); 22 May 2001 16:20:09 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 May 2001 16:20:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13625 invoked by uid 500); 22 May 2001 16:20:31 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: Gnus Beta Testers In-Reply-To: (Didier Verna's message of "22 May 2001 18:10:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 17 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36313 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36313 Didier Verna writes: > As far as backward compatibility is concerned, what we could > do if make gnus accept a nil primary method, and then use > `gnus-secondary-select-methods' as my `gnus-select-methods' > variable. How about: check gnus-select-methods; if it's non-nil, use it; otherwise, use (cons gnus-select-method gnus-secondary-select-methods)? Eventually, gnus-select-method and g-s-s-m might be removed. g-s-s-m would become a confusing name if it lists all the servers. What about foreign servers? A while ago, I think someone suggested there should be only a single list of servers, customizable via the server buffer. paul