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Gnus topic system limited

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From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg <at> debian.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys)
Subject: Gnus topic system limited
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:59:57 +0200

Severity: wishlist


Hi,

the topic system in gnus is nice and useful, but it's also limiting the
user to only have one topic with one name. Which is annoying.

Following structure I would like to have:

Gnus
  common
  Debian
    common
    DAM
    FTPMaster
      common
      rejects
      overrides
      cron
    DAM
      common
      cron
    Mailinglists
  DebConf
    common
    admin
    Mailinglists
  OFTC
    common
    admin
    Mailinglists
[... and so on ...]

What Gnus forces me to have is instead
Gnus
  common
  Debian
    Debian common
    DAM
    FTPMaster
      FTPMaster common
      rejects
      overrides
      FTPMaster cron
    DAM
      DAM common
      cron
    Debian Mailinglists
  DebConf
    DebConf common
    DebConf admin
    DebConf Mailinglists
  OFTC
    OFTC common
    OFTC admin
    OFTC Mailinglists


That is a load of unneeded repetitions making it ugly.

I would love if gnus allows topics to be unique only within a topic
level. Yes, that may mean one can no longer use tab/backtab to
(un)indent topics and entirely freely move them around - or if one does
it would be valid for gnus to either complain or append randomness to
the name until its unique again.



Gnus v5.13
GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5)
 of 2015-04-15 on gkar, modified by Debian

--
bye, Joerg

Message #8 received at 20447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Joerg Jaspert <joerg <at> debian.org>
Cc: 20447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20447: Gnus topic system limited
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:00:32 +0100

Sorry for the late response; due to a misunderstanding the Gnus bug
reports went to a part of the bug tracker I wasn't checking.

Joerg Jaspert <joerg <at> debian.org> writes:

> the topic system in gnus is nice and useful, but it's also limiting the
> user to only have one topic with one name. Which is annoying.

[...]

> That is a load of unneeded repetitions making it ugly.
>
> I would love if gnus allows topics to be unique only within a topic
> level. Yes, that may mean one can no longer use tab/backtab to
> (un)indent topics and entirely freely move them around - or if one does
> it would be valid for gnus to either complain or append randomness to
> the name until its unique again.

True, it would be better if the topics didn't have to be unique, but I
think it would be too much work to change this now.  And, as you point
out, moving topics around would potentially create collisions and stuff,
so I don't think it's worth it.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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