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From: Seb <spluque@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: group parameter and group-local variables
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:31:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871v9eo9xt.fsf@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3aao61jsg.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:58:39 +0200")

On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:58:39 +0200,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Seb <spluque@gmail.com> writes:
>> However, now `bbdb-always-add-addresses' remains nil globally.  What
>> could be going on?

> Looking at the code, it's copying over all the summary-local values of
> the variables in `gnus-newsgroup-variables' to the global variables.
> So it's kinda more a strange hook to set global values for these
> things.  So you should probably have a top-level topic parameter or
> the like that sets this value to what you prefer to have it globally
> in addition to the different value you have in that specific group.

The problem is that BBDB gets `bbdb-always-add-addresses' from the
*Article* buffer.  Setting this variable in a topic parameter as you
suggest didn't set its value in the *Article* buffer of the child group.

Thanks,

-- 
Seb



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-21 19:16 Seb
2010-08-28 21:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-08-31 19:31   ` Seb [this message]
2010-09-01  2:13     ` Dave Goldberg

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