nndir prints "nnml: fetching headers"

nndir prints "nnml: fetching headers"

[Kai Großjohann]

I have an nndir group (created with `G d'), and when I enter it, Gnus
prints "nnml: fetching headers" and various messages like this.
Shouldn't it print "nndir: fetching headers"?

What's the story?

kai
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Re: nndir prints "nnml: fetching headers"

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I have an nndir group (created with `G d'), and when I enter it, Gnus
> prints "nnml: fetching headers" and various messages like this.
> Shouldn't it print "nndir: fetching headers"?

The exact message is "nnml: Receiving headers...", right?  

> What's the story?

nnml is a parent of nndir. nndir-retrieve-headers (nnoo creates it)
calls nnml-retrieve-headers, but nnml-retrieve-headers isn't aware
what the real backend is.  Maybe "nnml:" in the message is confusing.
Remove it?

ShengHuo

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Re: nndir prints "nnml: fetching headers"

[Kai Großjohann]

On 07 Feb 2001, ShengHuo ZHU wrote:

> The exact message is "nnml: Receiving headers...", right?  

Yes.

>> What's the story?
> 
> nnml is a parent of nndir. nndir-retrieve-headers (nnoo creates it)
> calls nnml-retrieve-headers, but nnml-retrieve-headers isn't aware
> what the real backend is.  Maybe "nnml:" in the message is
> confusing.  Remove it?

Ah, it's because of nnoo.  Hm.  If nnoo grokked class names, then
maybe the message in nnml-retrieve-headers could print the class name
rather than a fixed string.

But maybe this is not worth the bother.

I like the idea of nnoo-ing stuff like the backends, but maybe the
implementation is a bit flawed.  Does EIEIO provide for `proper' OO in
Emacs Lisp?  If this ever becomes part of Emacs, Gnus could switch to
it.  Hm.  (I was really amazed at how fast Lars was able to cook this
up, though.)

kai
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