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Kai.Grossjohann@cs.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> 
>> It is cute, but we'd better let users use %uX instead of adding %q
>> into g-s-l-f-a.  For example, (defalias 'gnus-user-format-function-X
>> 'gnus-user-date).
> 
> Isn't %uX reserved for user customizations?  Frank's proposal is to
> become part of Gnus, and therefore not for user-specific stuff,
> anymore.
> 
> Yes, we might run out of letters soon.  But I think it might be better
> in this case to allow something like %(foo) or %{foo} or %[foo] style
> longer identifiers.
> 
> Opinions?

Unfortunately, (), {}, <> and [] are all taken.

ShengHuo