From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14262 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnus works `at it is' but isn't that a coincidence? Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:01:36 +0100 Organization: Janet Usenet Reading Service. Message-ID: <84tyq5h9cf.fsf@cs.bham.ac.uk> References: <8739xq5sy8.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> <87fx1qcpnr.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <877hn2fgsn.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291957182 13729 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 04:59:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:59:42 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 05:59:38 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQv4s-00071d-5x for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:59:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59815 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQut5-00074f-V5 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:47:20 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!times.reader.netnews.ja.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wallace.cs.bham.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: north.jnrs.ja.net 1274173307 2854 147.188.193.15 (18 May 2010 09:01:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@north.jnrs.ja.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 09:01:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WAvhp840icifid772gQlbGGJnZg= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84369 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:27:52 -0500 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14262 Archived-At: Merciadri Luca 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