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bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:04:59 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
dick.r.chiang@gmail.com writes:
> It doesn't fix anything. I think Eric Abrahamsen adequately describes the
> change in a parallel thread.
Not really -- he says that it complicates things, but not exactly is
meant to be achieved by the patch.
> The introduction of a separate `gnus-secondary-select-methods` rather than
> merely vectorizing `gnus-select-method` seems a youthful indiscretion that's
> persisted to the present-day.
No, it was done to retain backwards compatibility.
> The "insider" convention of specifying a primary of `nnnil` to
> symmetrize one's other backends has caused a collective double-take
> among newer users like myself.
Very few people use the nnnil thing -- all it gives you is that you
don't get any unprefixed groups.
So again I ask you -- what does your patch do? Does it make all the
groups prefixed? If you can't explain what the patch does, it doesn't
seem likely to be applied.
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- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods, dick . r . chiang, 2019/10/25
- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods, Eric Abrahamsen, 2019/10/26
- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/10/27
- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods, Eric Abrahamsen, 2019/10/27
- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods, dick . r . chiang, 2019/10/27
- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/10/28
- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods, dick . r . chiang, 2019/10/28
- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/10/28
- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods, dick . r . chiang, 2019/10/29
- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods, dick . r . chiang, 2019/10/29