From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82003 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carson Chittom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap-list-pattern doesn't work? Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:24:44 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87bojviw4p.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341404719 4196 80.91.229.3 (4 Jul 2012 12:25:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 12:25:19 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30273@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jul 04 14:25:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SmOdy-0007l4-JF for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:25:18 +0200 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 1SmOdl-0005at-Li; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:25:05 -0500 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 1SmOdj-0005ae-1L for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SmOdh-0003bH-0Q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SmOdf-0004VY-0v for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:24:59 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SmOdb-00073p-6x for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:24:55 +0200 Original-Received: from sdf.org ([192.94.73.15]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:24:55 +0200 Original-Received: from carson by sdf.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:24:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sdf.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Eo8mf57CnRgs4aavxcmcFfULLPg= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82003 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Carson Chittom 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.