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Gnus topic system limited

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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.

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