From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38552 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: backend stuff for the manual Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 00:08:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174397 23120 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:26:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:26:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 2448 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2001 22:09:14 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Sep 2001 22:09:14 -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 AAA20748 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:08:47 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id AAA15519; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:08:47 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 4889020B0; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:08:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:03:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 Original-Lines: 29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38552 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38552 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > For nnchoke-request-newgroups, the description of the date format is > not very informative. It should be mentioned that it is the format > produced by (current-time-string), and that it can be converted to a > (high . low) date via (date-to-time). nnml ignores the date; the > manual should mention that it is safe to do this, and that the date is > useful only if listing the new groups is faster than listing all > groups. (Assuming this is indeed correct; is it?) What do you think of the following paragraph? /---- | @item (nnchoke-request-newgroups DATE &optional SERVER) | | The result data from this function should be all groups that were | created after @samp{date}, which is in normal human-readable date format | (i.e., the date format used in mail and news headers, and returned by | the function @code{current-time-string} by default). The data should be | in the active buffer format. (It is okay for this function to return | `too many' groups; some backends might find it cheaper to return the | full list of groups, rather than just the new groups. But don't do this | for backends with too many groups.) \---- kai -- Symbol's function definition is void: signature