From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14305 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnus works `at it is' but isn't that a coincidence? Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:58:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87zksektb2.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <8739xq5sy8.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> <87fx1qcpnr.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <877hn2fgsn.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> <84tyq5h9cf.fsf@cs.bham.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291964348 5273 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 06:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:59:08 +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 07:59:04 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 1PQwwX-0001kj-6j for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:59:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45218 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQwwX-0002FA-3U for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42391 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQwwU-0002F2-RM for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:58:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQwwT-00049C-7m for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:58:58 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46500) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQwwT-00048z-24 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:58:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQwwR-0001jB-1D for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:58:55 +0100 Original-Received: from 95-88-32-105-dynip.superkabel.de ([95.88.32.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:58:55 +0100 Original-Received: from tassilo by 95-88-32-105-dynip.superkabel.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:58:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 95-88-32-105-dynip.superkabel.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QwGWWo4KsD+ZR7qpZuXfO0GoczU= 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:14305 Archived-At: Uday S Reddy writes: Hi Uday, >> 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. No, secondary methods are just handled like the primary one, but the primary one is not prefixed with it's server and method name in the *Group* buffer. > I don't think it makes sense any more to split things into a "primary" > method and "secondary" methods. But old habits die hard... Yes, so many people set the primary to nnnil and only use the secondary ones. Bye, Tassilo