Re: newsgroup variables

[Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

>>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

KG> 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.

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

I think the mechanism of message-clone-locals is too aggressive. At
least I found a bug because of message-clone-locals. I need a list of
variables that are used in message buffer, so that they can be
explicitly listed in the gnus-newsgroup-variables.

I also think whether those variables should be cloned. If only one
copy is kept in summary buffer, you can not get those value after
exiting the summary buffer. Sometimes, messages are sent after user
exits the current summary buffer. If this were a problem, we would
have got a big trouble to send emails from nndraft:drafts, where those
variables are not kept at all.

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Shenghuo