From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14525 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Hierarchical group names - component separator Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:03:05 +0100 Message-ID: <87y67213vq.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294063416 21413 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 14:03:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 14:03:36 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 15:03:32 2011 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 1PZl0U-0003z3-Oz for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:03:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44492 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZl0U-0002U3-CS for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46017 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZl0R-0002TW-1d for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:03:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZl0P-0005Cm-Gm for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:03:26 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZl0P-0005CE-9w for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZl0K-0003sd-9e for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:03:20 +0100 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:03:20 +0100 Original-Received: from tassilo by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:03:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eUaFjG+Ko2dmlldihptaYIv6FpA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:14525 Archived-At: Tommy Kelly writes: Hi Tommy, > Can anyone see a problem with using "/" us the separator of components > in a hierarchical group name. For example, instead of: > > mylists.linkedin.updates > mylists.linkedin.groups.gnus > mylists.linkedin.groups.yaks > > I'd use: > > mylists/linkedin/updates > mylists/linkedin/groups/gnus > mylists/linkedin/groups/yaks I think, Gnus shows the separator which your imap provider advertises. I have 3 different IMAP accounts in Gnus: two use `/' as separator, and the other one uses `.'. > The reason is that gmail supports "folding" of the latter style. My > concern though is that somewhere deep in the current or planned lisp, > using "/" will break something. I also have a gmail account, and there `/' is used as separator. So I'd use that as separator when creating new folders in that account. > If it's currently allowed, then maybe take this email as a > pointing-out of the fact that gmail *does* indeed support use of "/" > and so it would be nice if it remained allowed in the future :-) What makes you think someone's going to forbid it? Bye, Tassilo