From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70236 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Seb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: group parameter and group-local variables Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:31:58 -0500 Organization: University of Manitoba Message-ID: <871v9eo9xt.fsf@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org> References: <87k4njkc8p.fsf@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283283171 9967 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2010 19:32:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:32:51 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18622@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 31 21:32:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqWZc-0004At-A3 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:32:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OqWZS-00033y-9c; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:32:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OqWZR-00033h-29 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:32:37 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OqWZL-0002gO-St for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:32:36 -0500 Original-Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OqWZK-0002K2-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:32:31 +0200 Original-Received: from pd7ml1no-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.153.161]) by pd5mo1no-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 31 Aug 2010 13:31:59 -0600 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=AcJjKCdO+C1gfaz5PU+ZhOHJ3th58JHw7dR6QJZP96w= c=1 sm=1 a=DdRroWTeML8A:10 a=VphdPIyG4kEA:10 a=SBk0VD5RLtBA4KUBIqACxg==:17 a=OocQHUDgAAAA:8 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=5d04Jh25xPzamuWLDXcA:9 a=eMLGLS3viGHIIHpmzMoPONBANgkA:4 a=1E7MJ1fmoUgA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org) ([24.77.73.195]) by pd7ml1no-dmz.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 31 Aug 2010 13:31:58 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:58:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70236 Archived-At: On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:58:39 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Seb 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