native vs primary

native vs primary

[regcl]

I have been using gnus to hack away at my mail for about a year. Now I am
trying to understand it ...

Looking at the doc, "primary" seems to mean whatever gnus-select-method
points to which could be news or mail.

"native" is a confusingly similar term.

M-x A primary RET, produces 0 hits 

M-x A native RET, produces 1 hit ...

   gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups M-x ... RET
       Clear all marks and read ranges from all native groups.

I can't find "primary" in gnus.el, where "native" seems to mean
"primary".

Is there any difference between "primary" and "native"?

Could we simplify the doc by bulk replacing "primary" with "native"?

Thanks,
regcl

Re: native vs primary

[W. Greenhouse]

regcl <regcl-layyI3BE+OXOHkwriC13pfZ8FUJU4vz8@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Is there any difference between "primary" and "native"?

As far as I can tell, they're exactly the same (or close to it; a
"native" group is one who is a member of the "primary" select method).
A "native" Gnus group is one which doesn't have a protocol+host part,
like "nnimap+foo.bar.org:", as part of its name.  But the only groups that
don't use that syntax are those which are part of `gnus-select-method',
i.e. the "primary" select method.

> Could we simplify the doc by bulk replacing "primary" with "native"?

Probably.