* Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only?
@ 2015-12-01 19:26 N. Jackson
2015-12-01 19:47 ` Frank Haun
2015-12-01 19:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
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From: N. Jackson @ 2015-12-01 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
The news server (textnews.news.cambrium.nl) that is set as my primary
select method (i.e. in gnus-select-method) seems to have disappeared.
[It's not a terrible loss. I have other news servers in my secondary
select methods that I've been using more and more. One day I would like
to find a good comprehensive reliable news server that I can use for
both reading and writing, but after years of looking I despair of ever
finding such a beast.]
With the server not available, Gnus takes a _very_ long time to start.
(The manual describes some of the convolutions it goes through to find
an alternative news source.)
I tried starting Gnus with `gnus-no-server' but this also disables the
servers for my secondary select methods.
I'm wondering if I can safely set gnus-select-method to null or nil or
something to have Gnus just use my secondary select methods? If so what
would be the syntax?
Something like this:
(setq gnus-select-method nil)
Thanks for any advice anyone can provide.
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* Re: Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only?
2015-12-01 19:26 Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only? N. Jackson
@ 2015-12-01 19:47 ` Frank Haun
2015-12-01 19:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
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From: Frank Haun @ 2015-12-01 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:26:54 -0400, N. Jackson wrote:
> (setq gnus-select-method nil)
Correct is:
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
Frank
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* Re: Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only?
2015-12-01 19:26 Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only? N. Jackson
2015-12-01 19:47 ` Frank Haun
@ 2015-12-01 19:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-01 20:18 ` Dan Christensen
2015-12-01 22:24 ` N. Jackson
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From: Adam Sjøgren @ 2015-12-01 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
N. writes:
> Something like this:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method nil)
Close, try:
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))
(I always do that, so all my select methods are secondary, i.e. "handled
the same", prefix- and otherwise.)
Best regards,
Adam
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When I'm right, I shut up" asjo@koldfront.dk
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* Re: Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only?
2015-12-01 19:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
@ 2015-12-01 20:18 ` Dan Christensen
2015-12-01 20:24 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-01 22:24 ` N. Jackson
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From: Dan Christensen @ 2015-12-01 20:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
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asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
> N. writes:
>
>> Something like this:
>>
>> (setq gnus-select-method nil)
>
> Close, try:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))
I use
(setq gnus-select-method nil)
and have done so for years. Is there an advantage to using nnnil?
Dan
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* Re: Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only?
2015-12-01 20:18 ` Dan Christensen
@ 2015-12-01 20:24 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-01 22:37 ` N. Jackson
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From: Adam Sjøgren @ 2015-12-01 20:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dan writes:
> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>> N. writes:
>>> Something like this:
>>>
>>> (setq gnus-select-method nil)
>> Close, try:
>>
>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))
> I use
>
> (setq gnus-select-method nil)
>
> and have done so for years. Is there an advantage to using nnnil?
Except that N. said that it didn't work for him, probably not.
I must admit I've never tried.
Best regards,
Adam
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and everybody should run UNIX!" asjo@koldfront.dk
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* Re: Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only?
2015-12-01 20:24 ` Adam Sjøgren
@ 2015-12-01 22:37 ` N. Jackson
2015-12-01 22:50 ` Adam Sjøgren
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From: N. Jackson @ 2015-12-01 22:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
At 16:24 -0400 on Tuesday 2015-12-01, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> Dan writes:
>
>> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>
>>> N. writes:
>
>>>> Something like this:
>>>>
>>>> (setq gnus-select-method nil)
>
>>> Close, try:
>>>
>>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))
>
>> I use
>>
>> (setq gnus-select-method nil)
>>
>> and have done so for years. Is there an advantage to using nnnil?
>
> Except that N. said that it didn't work for him, probably not.
>
> I must admit I've never tried.
Sorry for the confusion. I didn't mean to suggest that I had tried (setq
gnus-select-method nil).
That was just my guess about what might work. I wanted to check that
Gnus doesn't explode or anything when it doesn't have a "primary" select
method before I tried it.
[Section 1.5 (info "(gnus) Changing Servers") of the manual makes me
very anxious about making changes to my Gnus server configuration. I
didn't want to break everything else that was working fine!]
Regards,
N.
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* Re: Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only?
2015-12-01 19:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-01 20:18 ` Dan Christensen
@ 2015-12-01 22:24 ` N. Jackson
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From: N. Jackson @ 2015-12-01 22:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
At 15:47 -0400 on Tuesday 2015-12-01, Frank Haun wrote:
>
> Correct is:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
At 15:47 -0400 on Tuesday 2015-12-01, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
>
> Close, try:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))
Thanks Frank and Adam. I used Adam's version as the simpler and that
does the trick.
[Gnus hasn't started up so quickly in months!]
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