From: Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnimap-list-pattern doesn't work?
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:24:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sgtsjd7vhmb.fsf@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bojviw4p.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de>
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net> writes:
>>
>> The nnimap-list-pattern appears to do pretty much nothing at all.
>
> I just checked out the emacs-24 branch, and the version of Gnus included
> there doesn't define `nnimap-list-pattern' at all. So I'm rather sure
> it does pretty much nothing. ;-)
Good to know I'm not crazy. :)
>> My assumption, based on the manual's sentence in section 6.5
>>
>> [nnimap-list-pattern] is used when the server has very many
>> mailboxes and you're only interested in a few--some servers export
>> your home directory via IMAP, you'll probably want to limit the
>> mailboxes to those in '~/Mail/*' then.
>>
>> was that this meant that Gnus simply didn't worry about anything that
>> wasn't specifically listed.
>
> The Gnus manual for the built-in version of Gnus that ships with emacs
> doesn't have this description and doesn't refer to `nnimap-list-pattern'
> at all. Well, except that there's an example using it in the Gnus FAQ,
> which is a bug in the documentation.
Ah, you're right. I was relying on my printed-out copy of the manual,
which was, I think, from the Gnus in Emacs 23. I just didn't expect
something so fairly basic to be changed/removed. That's not a
complaint, only a statement of my expectations; clearly, the error was
mine.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-04 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-03 18:53 Carson Chittom
2012-07-04 10:03 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-07-04 12:24 ` Carson Chittom [this message]
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