* foreign group names are ugly
@ 1996-06-08 3:10 Miles Bader
1996-06-09 4:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Miles Bader @ 1996-06-08 3:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Re: foreign group names are ugly
1996-06-08 3:10 foreign group names are ugly Miles Bader
@ 1996-06-09 4:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1996-06-09 4:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu> writes:
> 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?
Sure. Just write a `gnus-user-format-function-X' function that does
this and plug it into `gnus-group-line-format'. Or use "%G" instead
of "%g" in that variable to have all groups listed unprefixed.
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would have to wait until some other time."
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