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From: Tony Lam <Tony.Lam+ding@eng.sun.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: eval-ing arbitrary forms via posting-styles.
Date: 26 Jul 1999 16:18:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4jy6737gfvb.fsf@homeworld.Eng.Sun.Com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lloyd Zusman's message of "14 Jul 1999 17:38:43 -0400"

* "Lloyd" == Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

Lloyd> I'm wondering what you folks think of the following idea for an
Lloyd> enhancement to the gnus-posting-styles functionality:

Lloyd> I'd like to be able to eval arbitrary, style-specific forms when
Lloyd> gnus-posting-styles are being processed, without causing any headers
Lloyd> to be set.  For example, the syntax might look something like this:

I wonder why it is not already done this way. Group parameters already
allow evaluation of arbitrary forms in summary and article buffer,
posting style should allow the same thing in message buffer. I know it
can be done in message-setup-hook but it is kind of ugly.

Tony


  reply	other threads:[~1999-07-26 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-14 21:38 Lloyd Zusman
1999-07-26 23:18 ` Tony Lam [this message]
1999-08-27 18:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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