From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus works `at it is' but isn't that a coincidence?
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:01:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84tyq5h9cf.fsf@cs.bham.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hn2fgsn.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA>
Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> writes:
>> The primary method isn't prefixed. The secondary ones are.
>
> Prefixed? Huh? In which way? You meant that if method1 is stuff1 and
> method2 is stuff2, stuff1 is not prefixed, and, thus, everything
> calling stuff1 without prefix will call stuff1, but, to call stuff2,
> one needs to add some prefix before operations?
I suppose what he means is that running `M-x gnus' connects to the
primary method, but giving a prefix argument `C-u M-x gnus' allows you
to connect to the other methods. You have to type in the method you
want to connect to and the group name in the minibuffer.
I suppose this is a hang-over from the old days when people just used
the local news server and they went to the other news servers only if
the local server was down or something. I don't think it makes sense
any more to split things into a "primary" method and "secondary"
methods. But old habits die hard...
Cheers,
Uday Reddy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-18 9:01 UTC|newest]
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2010-05-17 17:38 Merciadri Luca
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2010-05-17 19:51 ` Merciadri Luca
2010-05-18 9:01 ` Uday S Reddy [this message]
2010-12-10 6:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-09 16:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-09 16:07 ` Tassilo Horn
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