Re: Posting styles and negation of rules; proposal of new syntax

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, jas@extundo.com wrote:

> sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer) writes:
> 
>> On 11 Aug 2003, Karl Pflästerer <- sigurd@12move.de wrote:
>>
>> [a lot]
>>
>> So I see there is absolutely no interest in such a functionality.
> 
> What I'm missing is a reason NOT to install it.  Is there any?  It's
> not backwards compatible in any way, is it?  I vote for installing
> it (when the, err, feature heat is over).  I also prefer "not" as
> the mnemonic; I don't recall seeing !  or ~ used as logical negation
> in elisp related situations.

I was thinking that maybe gnus-parameters and all the variables and
parameters defined through gnus-define-group-parameter should take
some sort of "not" notation.  It won't necessarily be available
through the user-visible customization page, but those who know Lisp
can go in and modify it to suit them.  I have no idea how complex this
would be, but it does seem like some redundant code could be
eliminated, and cool functionality could be added, if a general
parsing approach was taken to all the various parameters and settings.

Ted