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Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> Is it helpful to provide a simple mechanism to do this? I mean, what
> you need to do is just (push 'the-variable gnus-newsgroup-variables).
> You need not care which buffer it should be copied to.

What you're proposing sounds way cool.  I think it could also replace
message-clone-locals, the old mechanism (for copying variables from
the summary buffer to a message buffer, I think).

kai
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