From: "Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: User defined digest types in Gnus
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:24:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199603042024.PAA04012@thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rjhgw4c2rq.fsf@ssv4.dina.kvl.dk> (abraham@dina.kvl.dk)
Excerpts from mail: (04-Mar-96) User defined digest types in Gnus by Per Abrahamsen
> There is some weird format digests in `rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon-5.info'
> that I would like to split. I don't think Gnus should support these by
> default, as they are probably only of interest to Babylon 5 fans.
Yeah, I've come across non-standard digest formats fairly often myself. In
the past, I've usually ended up modifying the source code...
> For situations like this, it would be nice if there was a well
> documented way to add new digest types to Gnus.
>
> `nndoc-type-alist' almost provides this, with two exceptions:
>
> 1) It should be documented (although it seems pretty straight-forward).
>
> 2) Each digest type description should contain a function that returns
> non-nil if the current buffer is a digest of that type. This would avoid
> the hard-coding of the digest types in `nndoc-guess-digest-type'.
Wow, this is a great idea and long overdue. Maybe we can classify this as a
bug and sneak it into September Gnus rather than waiting for Red?
Later,
Ed
prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-03-04 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-04 15:10 Per Abrahamsen
1996-03-04 19:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-04 20:24 ` Edward J. Sabol [this message]
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