From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6567 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: foreign group names are ugly Date: 07 Jun 1996 23:10:51 -0400 Sender: miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147004 4064 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:50:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA27735 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 20:24:13 -0700 Original-Received: from duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (!#$%^&*!#$%^&*!#$%^&*!#$%^&*!#$%^&*!#$%^&*!#$%^&*!#$%^&*!#$%^&*!#$%^&*!#$%^&*!#$%^&*@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.236]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 05:10:55 +0200 Original-Received: by duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id XAA16488; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 23:10:53 -0400 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.1/Emacs 19.31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6567 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6567 I don't like the way foreign groups are always displayed with the `nn...:' prefix. I realize that it's necessary to disambiguate cases of duplicate group names between two different backends -- however, I would like to be able to specify which backend is the default `pretty' one for a particular group. So, for most groups, the main nntp backend would be the default, and any identically named groups using another backend would get the appropiate backend-specific prefix. However, if I read mail with gnus, I'd like to be able to say that groups matching the regexp "^mail\." are displayed with no prefix only when they belong to the nnfoo+blah backend (and of course groups matching "^ding\." would be associated prettily with the nndir+... backend via which I read this list.... Is this possible with the current design of gnus? -Miles -- Miles Bader / miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu / (617) 253-8568 `Life is a boundless sea of bitterness'