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* (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))
@ 2002-04-03 21:15 Don Saklad
  2002-04-03 22:42 ` Paul Jarc
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Don Saklad @ 2002-04-03 21:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc:   http://zork.net/~dsaklad  

1. What does it mean exactly?...


          (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
          	'((nnml "")))



2. And why only one single quote?...


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* Re: (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))
  2002-04-03 21:15 (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))) Don Saklad
@ 2002-04-03 22:42 ` Paul Jarc
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Paul Jarc @ 2002-04-03 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw)


Don Saklad <dsaklad@nestle.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
> 1. What does it mean exactly?...
>
>           (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>           	'((nnml "")))

This sets the variable gnus-secondary-select-methods to a list
containing one element, which itself is a list containing two
elements: the first is the symbol nnml, and the second is the string
"".  Gnus interprets this as indicating that you're using the nnml
mail backend with all the default server parameters.

> 2. And why only one single quote?...

That's how one expresses in Lisp that the following expression should
be left as-is.  Without the single quote, the following expression
would undergo "evaluation", which in this case would result in an
error.


paul


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