From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6045 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: ephemeral for dummies? Date: 25 Apr 1996 14:40:37 +0200 Sender: grossjoh@dusty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Message-ID: Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.52) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146560 2355 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:42:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:42:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Pfeifer , NNDB Mailing List Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from spork.callamer.com (root@spork.callamer.com [199.74.141.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA01381 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:42:09 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by spork.callamer.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA26191 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 06:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from floyd.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (floyd.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.40]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:41:08 +0200 Original-Received: from dusty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de by floyd.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP (Sendmail 8.7.5/UniDo 3.11) id OAA24981; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:40:41 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: by dusty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id AA03653; Thu, 25 Apr 96 14:40:39 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 20 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.79/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6045 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6045 Hi there, suppose I've got a backend (you know it's nndb.el :). Suppose further I want to extend this to create ephemeral groups. What do I have to change in nndb.el to enable it to create ephemeral groups, too? (I'd be willing to create yet another backend nneb.el (e=ephemeral) if that's easier.) Just in case you're wondering... NNDB has an option to search its database. This works by creating groups which have "=" in their name. NNDB then creates a new group on the fly and puts the search result into it. This group can be manipulated using the normal measures. I just thought it would be easier to be able to create an ephemeral group rather than to always create a `real' group (using `G m') and to kill it after use. kai -- Gleep!