Gottfried writes: > Am 15.01.26 um 14:09 schrieb Adam Sjøgren:
>> You are aware that it doesn't do anything, right? > No, I am not aware of it. Ok, now you know. > I thought it will take news from "eternal-september. It would be nice if software read your mind and did things spontaneously, but that's not how it works. (At least not yet, AI summer/winter notwithstanding.) > If I uncomment it, what will be going to happen? You mean if you comment it out? Nothing will change, because Gnus does not know of that variable and does not react to it, it is entirely of your own invention. This is what Arash tried to tell you, saying: | Before we proceed, where do you have that `gnus-third-select-methods' | from? Git grepping that in Emacs sources gives me no results. in a previous email in this thread. > How can I then use "eternal-september"? Gnus has two variables which tells it which servers to connect to: gnus-select-method and gnus-secondary-select-methods. It's kind of a historical artefact that both exist, I think; I set the first to nnnil and - here comes the important part: - I put all my servers in gnus-secondary-select-methods. Notice how that variable is plural - methodS - you can use it to configure many servers. So you can add news.eternal-september.org there, after your nnimap server. You can read more in the Gnus manual: https://www.gnus.org/manual.html And you can ask Emacs about variables you are interested in: ,----[ C-h v gnus-select-method RET ] | gnus-select-method is a variable defined in ‘gnus.el’. | | Its value is (nnnil) | Original value was (nntp "news") | | Default method for selecting a newsgroup. | This variable should be a list, where the first element is how the | news is to be fetched, the second is the address. | | For instance, if you want to get your news via "flab.flab.edu" using | NNTP, you could say: | | (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "flab.flab.edu")) | | If you want to use your local spool, say: | | (setq gnus-select-method (list 'nnspool (system-name))) | | If you use this variable, you must set ‘gnus-nntp-server’ to nil. | | There is a lot more to know about select methods and virtual servers - | see the manual for details. | | You can customize this variable. | `---- ,----[ C-h v gnus-secondary-select-methods RET ] | gnus-secondary-select-methods is a variable defined in ‘gnus.el’. | | Its value is shown below. | | A list of secondary methods that will be used for reading news. | This is a list where each element is a complete select method (see | ‘gnus-select-method’). | | If, for instance, you want to read your mail with the nnml back end, | you could set this variable: | | (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))) | | You can customize this variable. | | Value: | [...elided...] | Original value was nil | `---- Note: try C-h v gnus-third-select-methods and see what the documentation says about that variable. Best regards, Adam -- "Scientific developments can always be made logical Adam Sjøgren and rational with sufficient hindsight. It is [email protected] amazing, however, how clouded the crystal ball looks beforehand."
