From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6067 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ephemeral for dummies? Date: 28 Apr 1996 11:30:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146578 2413 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:42:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:42:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA12853 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 04:52:15 -0700 Original-Received: from ylfing.ifi.uio.no (4867@ylfing.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.25]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:17:34 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by ylfing.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:17:32 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 22 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.80/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6067 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6067 Kai Grossjohann writes: > 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.) The backend doesn't have to know whether the group in question is ephemeral or not -- which should save some work. Just call `gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group' to select an ephemeral group. It takes four parameters -- the group name, the select method, a flag that says whether the group should be activated or not, and a window configuration that says where Gnus should go when the user presses `q' in the ephemeral group. Gnus uses this function when `C-d'ing in the summary buffer, or when reading nneething groups. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."