From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36307 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Didier Verna Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] primary / secondary methods differences Date: 22 May 2001 15:13:10 +0200 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171914 7901 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Gnus Beta Testers Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 27023 invoked by alias); 22 May 2001 13:16:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27018 invoked from network); 22 May 2001 13:16:27 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO hermes.epita.fr) (163.5.255.10) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 May 2001 13:16:27 -0000 Original-Received: from goa.lrde.epita.fr (mail@goa.lrde.epita.fr [10.223.13.2]) by hermes.epita.fr id PAA09429 Tue, 22 May 2001 15:12:54 GMT Original-Received: from uzeb.lrde.epita.fr ([10.223.13.53] ident=mail) by goa.lrde.epita.fr with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 152Bz7-00078y-00; Tue, 22 May 2001 15:14:01 +0200 Original-Received: from didier by uzeb.lrde.epita.fr with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 152ByI-0005Ds-00; Tue, 22 May 2001 15:13:10 +0200 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@cs.uni-dortmund.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) X-Attribution: drv X-Url: http://www.infres.enst.fr/~verna X-Web: http://www.infres.enst.fr/~verna X-Home-Page: http://www.infres.enst.fr/~verna In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "22 May 2001 13:15:29 +0200") X-Face: |j}\)O|k##MrRz#VK$Jy=0r=3Qc,,a/Tr6*JQbE73dy17]2YcmW$9Z&H21e}#~#pgc>dn(is5Bv1l!{1re+Q9suKIOUmOqZs2>QMxHlR;;}kaGYA@HR3D C6 X-Face: 6o|eiKqaHN.ANh8HXDzntcWUOCg\]RsOd.ctvm~*y}Y^R&*a+Co,\s#=HWsw3x$b_n2kJ#g (7u?J^@^xP)f,jUF|0Z'J:|G/bMA5O12*b,7`-Q`=pKsCRIpso07.Y>YB2H{7`?u&yh;C_ZtLHfj If you can do (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods FOO), then > you can also do (setq gnus-select-method FOO), and vice versa. Was > this what you meant? Yup. The idea behind my question was that the concept of primary / secondary method is now really obsolete. We should have single `gnus-select-methodS' variable, and `gnus-no-server' shouldn't rely on leve= ls (which is also a misfeature), but instead, let you select which of your gnus-select-methods you want to open for this session. Implementing `gnus-select-methods' while maintaining backward compatibility doesn't look too difficult to me. I'm more sceptical on the latter point though. --=20 Didier Verna, didier@lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (1) 53 14 59 47 94276 Le Kremlin-Bic=EAtre, France Fax.+33 (1) 44 08 01 99 didier@xemac= s.org