From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38503 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: self contained nnfolder Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 01:31:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87r8tqim9w.fsf@uwo.ca> <87elpqikdi.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174356 22762 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:25:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:25:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 22209 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2001 23:31:47 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Sep 2001 23:31:47 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id BAA18219; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 01:31:18 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id BAA27093; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 01:31:18 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id EE5AB2097; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 01:31:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Dan Christensen In-Reply-To: <87elpqikdi.fsf@uwo.ca> (Dan Christensen's message of "Sat, 01 Sep 2001 19:03:53 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 35 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38503 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38503 Dan Christensen writes: > I'm still curious why my nnfolder groups come with various servers: > "nnfolder:", (nnfolder "") and "archive". What's the difference > between these? Can they be unified? I think it is best to always use strings for the server that a group belongs to. That is, replace all occurrences of (nnfolder "") with "nnfolder:", using `G e' (or by editing .newsrc.eld directly). Then you can change the server parameters on the fly, either by going in the server buffer with ^ and hitting e on the server, or by changing the entry in gnus-secondary-select-methods. For example, I used to access several groups from a foreign server using an rlogin-like program. But now I can access the server directly. So all I needed to do was to go to the server buffer and hit e on the server to replace (nntp "quimby" (nntp-address "gateway") (nntp-rlogin-program "ssh") ...) with (nntp "quimby" (nntp-address "quimby.gnus.org")) (Well, to tell the truth I had the bad thing before -- the `G e' output was a list. So I first changed that into a string. But _from now on_, if I ever need to frob the server parameters, I don't need to go to each group.) kai -- Symbol's function definition is void: signature