Re: must server be loaded to use Gcc ?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
>> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>>> 5. Review your whole .newsrc.eld, making similar changes.
>>
>> I think the problem is that .newsrc.eld lists the server as nil for
>> groups coming from gnus-select-method.  But how to find the right
>> occurrences of nil that should be replaced with "nntp:foo"?
>
> That's what the [G e] step was supposed to handle.  Doesn't it?

Ah!  Right.  Sorry for missing this one.

>> And how to find all groups which come from the native server?  One
>> must look for a list where the first element is a string which does
>> not contain the ":" character.  Whee...
>
> Right.  Fixing the top-level group names in gnus-newsrc-alist would be
> easy enough programmatically, but there could be other instance of
> group names - e.g., in group parameters somewhere.

After the previous step this might not be necessary anymore.  Hm.
Along with `G e', one could also change the group name.  Is `G E'
necessary for that or is there another way?

This `G e' thing could even be put in a kbd macro, so it would be
feasible to make it mostly automatic.  Cool.

I think I want to do this migration.

kai
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