From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38587 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 15:38:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174428 23331 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:27:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:27:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 18522 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2001 13:39:19 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Sep 2001 13:39:19 -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 PAA10341 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:38:52 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id PAA06904; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:38:51 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 9954620B0; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:38:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Mon, 03 Sep 2001 18:59:22 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 Original-Lines: 27 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38587 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38587 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: > > What do you think of the following paragraph? > > I like it. > >>| The result data from this function should be all groups that were > > Maybe "should include all groups"? Just to be a bit less > contradictory with the note that follows. Hm. Maybe. >>| 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.) > > Maybe also add a note about how to predict whether there are "too > many" groups: I tried to add that. kai --=20 Symbol's function definition is void: signature