Merciadri Luca <[email protected]> writes: >> The primary method isn't prefixed. The secondary ones are. > > 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. I suppose this is a hang-over from the old days when people just used the local news server and they went to the other news servers only if the local server was down or something. I don't think it makes sense any more to split things into a "primary" method and "secondary" methods. But old habits die hard... Cheers, Uday Reddy _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
