From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24511 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tony Lam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Proposal: eval-ing arbitrary forms via posting-styles. Date: 26 Jul 1999 16:18:00 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <4jy6737gfvb.fsf@homeworld.Eng.Sun.Com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162066 9145 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:01:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:01:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA10719 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:19:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAB19147; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:19:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:19:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA14218 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:19:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA10676 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:18:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from engmail2.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.146.1.25]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17087; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from philly.Eng.Sun.COM (philly.Eng.Sun.COM [129.144.140.126]) by engmail2.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/ENSMAIL,v1.6) with ESMTP id QAA16611; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from tonyl@localhost) by philly.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) id QAA11885; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:18:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-4 I) Original-To: Lloyd Zusman In-Reply-To: Lloyd Zusman's message of "14 Jul 1999 17:38:43 -0400" Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24511 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24511 * "Lloyd" == Lloyd Zusman 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