Re: personalized x-face

["Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Excerpts from mail: (20-Apr-99) personalized x-face  by David Hedbor
> What about adding two new symbols to gnus-posting-styles; x-face and
> x-face-file. The reason is, of course, that it would be a lot easier
> inserting your x-face without (e)lisp knowledge then.

That was actually suggested as part of the original discussion (circa
September 1995) that led to the implementation of posting styles. I would be
in favor of this.

> On the same subject, how would I do to add x-face to posting styles
> today (ie load a file and return it as a string)?

Probably something like what Matt Pharr <mmp@Graphics.Stanford.EDU> posted to
this mailing list back on 1999-02-19 which was for doing the same thing but
for signature files. This is untested modification of that elisp code
snippet, but it should work. You may or may not need to delete the trailing
newline, depending upon whether your x-face-file has a trailing newline or
not.

(defun my-x-face-file-to-string()
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert-file "/path/to/your/x-face-file")
    (goto-char (point-max))
    (delete-backward-char 1)
    (buffer-string)))

Later,
Ed