From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5441 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Edward J. Sabol" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: User defined digest types in Gnus Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:24:43 -0500 Message-ID: <199603042024.PAA04012@thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146045 343 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:34:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:34:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA20739 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 12:56:42 -0800 Original-Received: from thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov (thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.127.167]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:24:44 +0100 Original-Received: (from sabol@localhost) by thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov (LHEA9504/950407.s1) id PAA04012; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:24:43 -0500 Original-To: Gnus Mailing List In-reply-to: (abraham@dina.kvl.dk) Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5441 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5441 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