From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74978 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Julien Danjou Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting rid of the primary/secondary distinction Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:06:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292321179 6876 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2010 10:06:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:06:19 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23334@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 14 11:06:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSRlv-0005cU-3a for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:06:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PSRlr-00025U-Dq; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:06:11 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PSRlq-00025I-8J for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:06:10 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PSRlp-0004yH-5P for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:06:10 -0600 Original-Received: from coquelicot-s.easter-eggs.com ([213.215.37.94]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PSRlo-0001Sm-Ct for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:06:08 +0100 Original-Received: from cigue.easter-eggs.fr (cigue.easter-eggs.fr [10.0.0.33]) by rose.easter-eggs.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 95F2314187 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:06:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from jdanjou by cigue.easter-eggs.fr with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PSRlo-0002uS-4p for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:06:08 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:07:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74978 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? ;) =2D-=20 Julien Danjou =E2=9D=B1 http://julien.danjou.info --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAk0HQZAACgkQpGK1HsL+5c0LcQCXYEpopVlRP4NydVJ4bgV0AJJw YwCeMH6Sanlp/XCVTwzBlY6pyCt4jBc= =rNfd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--