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From: Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removing the first nntp server from the list
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 20:13:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85v8ib31gr.fsf@example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85sffyoo5j.fsf@example.com>

Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

> Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:
>
>> Richmond writes:
>>
>>> If I have in .gnus a structure like
>>>
>>>   (setq gnus-select-method
>>>
>>> and then subsequently
>>>
>>>   (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>>
>>> How do I remove the first server from the list? Should I just replace it
>>> with the second server? I think the article numbers would be messed up.
>>
>> You can set gnus-select-method to '(nnnil) - then it will do nothing,
>> and everything else will be "secondary" select-methods. This way you
>> also avoid having the special case for the first method.
>>
>
> Thanks it worked. I thought you had a repeating n key, but it's really a
> thing, nnnil.
>
> https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/gnus/nnnil.el

I think I have discovered an unexpected side effect of this, which is
that I no longer have a folder containing sent articles. Can I create a
new one? Maybe it is just a coincidence but I used to have a folder with
sent articles in, and now I do not.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-04 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-25 10:09 Richmond
2023-01-25 11:07 ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-01-25 11:21   ` Richmond
2023-01-26  6:52     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-26 19:47       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-01-26 20:05         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-26 20:15           ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-26 20:34           ` Richmond
2023-01-26 20:41             ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-04 19:13     ` Richmond [this message]
2023-01-25 16:37   ` Sergey Organov
2023-01-25 18:31     ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-01-26  6:46       ` Emanuel Berg

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