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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Gnus Beta Testers <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: [Q] Programmatically remembering the backend to post with ?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:07:28 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871t8qnwpb.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1bnaq2rit.fsf@xemacs.org> (Didier Verna's message of "Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:49:14 +0100")

Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:

> When I programmatically post, however, it doesn't so I must be missing
> something. Here's a skeleton of a posting function that I use.
>
> (defmacro* post-message
>     ((group subject message &optional (to-group group)) &body body)
>   ;; Post a Gnus MESSAGE about SUBJECT, from GROUP.
>   ;; Destination group will be the same unless TO-GROUP is provided.
>   ;; Execute BODY in the message buffer.
>
>   ;; #### WARNING: SAVE-EXCURSION is important to avoid local-variable value
>   ;; leaking. See some similar tricks in gnus-group-mail and such. I can't
>   ;; remember the exact problem though.
>   `(save-excursion
>      (let ((gnus-newsgroup-name ,group)
> 	   gnus-article-copy)
>        (gnus-post-news 'post ,to-group)
>        (gmm-fill ,subject ,message)
>        ,@body)))

Do you include the full Gnus group name in your function?  I think
that's all that Gnus does...

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2015-11-19 10:49 Didier Verna
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