On Mon, Dec 13 2010, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> However, I don't know how I'd like having all the groups be prefixed.
> Then I think the group buffer, at least, should be displayed
> differently.  Perhaps just do everything, er, like so:
>
> imap      4342244: misc.unanswered
> nntp           23: gmane.discuss
> nntp            *: gnu.emacs.gnus
>
> and not mention the complete prefixed name...

I'd say OK for the display part, but that's the just a default format
issue.

But then, be careful of conflicts. You can have the same group name on 2
differents servers. So you have to use full name everywhere, which
anyhow would avoid the confusion we have now.

> However, commands that expect group names will still expect group names,
> so people would have to deal with the complete names at some point.
> Although it's easier now, since the completion code has gotten so much
> better.  I never type a complete name with `j' any more, but just some
> random string from the middle of the group name.
>
> This would actually be really easy to implement.
>
> `gnus-select-method' would just default to nnnil, as Adam suggested.
> `gnus-methods' would default to `gnus-secondary-select-methods' (for
> legacy purposes).  So new users would only use `gnus-methods', while
> older users could continue to use their old stuff.

+1

When do we start? ;)

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