Tommy Kelly <[email protected]> writes: Hi Tommy,
> Can anyone see a problem with using "/" us the separator of components > in a hierarchical group name. For example, instead of: > > mylists.linkedin.updates > mylists.linkedin.groups.gnus > mylists.linkedin.groups.yaks > > I'd use: > > mylists/linkedin/updates > mylists/linkedin/groups/gnus > mylists/linkedin/groups/yaks I think, Gnus shows the separator which your imap provider advertises. I have 3 different IMAP accounts in Gnus: two use `/' as separator, and the other one uses `.'. > The reason is that gmail supports "folding" of the latter style. My > concern though is that somewhere deep in the current or planned lisp, > using "/" will break something. I also have a gmail account, and there `/' is used as separator. So I'd use that as separator when creating new folders in that account. > If it's currently allowed, then maybe take this email as a > pointing-out of the fact that gmail *does* indeed support use of "/" > and so it would be nice if it remained allowed in the future :-) What makes you think someone's going to forbid it? Bye, Tassilo _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
