Re: Yet another maildir question

[Jesse F. Hughes]

John Sullivan <johnsu01@yahoo.com> writes:

> jesse@phiwumbda.org (Jesse F. Hughes) writes:
>
>> "Richard Watson" <richard@openia.com> writes:
>>
>>> jesse@phiwumbda.org (Jesse F. Hughes) writes:
>>>
>>>> Evidently ~/Maildir is INBOX, and each subdirectory .dirname
>>>> corresponds to a group called INBOX.dirname.  This leads to fairly
>>>> unwieldy group names: nnimap+PW:INBOX.blah.  But I guess I can live
>>>> with this.  But *must* every group start with INBOX?
>>>
>>> I think that's a courier thing. All folders have to live inside the
>>> INBOX.
>>
>
> See http://my.gnus.org/node/view/294 for a way to arbitrarily rename
> your groups.
>
> Seems to me like there was also a prefix variable that would let you
> hide the INBOX, but I can't find it at the moment.

Say, that looks pretty handy. 

But does it do anything more than make the Group buffer pretty?  I
mean, a pretty Group buffer is good, but it's tab completion that is
most annoying for me.  When I copy articles, I'd like to user shorter
and simpler names.  That would be swell.

I bet that's not too hard to fix, given your functions, right?

-- 
Jesse F. Hughes
"Of course, my ability to admit my mistakes and correct them is a
trait that many of you seem to never have properly appreciated."
  -- JSH, discussing his 1463rd "proof" of Fermat's Last Theorem.