From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: weird results when setting gnus-parameters
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:20:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874nngzc1x.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5kt3qal.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> (lee@yun.yagibdah.de's message of "Sun, 02 Sep 2012 08:13:54 +0200")
lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
Hi!
> The documentation says:
>
> ,---- [ info (gnus) Group Parameters ]
> | All clauses that matches the group name will be used, but the last
> | setting "wins". So if you have two clauses that both match the group
> | name, and both set, say `display', the last setting will override the
> | first.
> `----
>
> It definitely doesn't work that way. I have done some experimentation
> with the order of entries in gnus-parameters and started thinking that
> either not the last setting wins but the first one or that the first
> setting that matches wins.
Indeed, the way posting styles and group parameters were applied used to
be not exactly as documented. This has been changed not long time ago.
Maybe that fix isn't in Gnus 5.13, so you might want to try out Gnus
from git.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-02 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-02 6:13 lee
2012-09-02 15:20 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2012-09-02 17:49 ` lee
2012-09-02 18:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-09-02 19:47 ` lee
2012-09-03 4:09 ` lee
2012-09-03 6:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-09-03 14:01 ` lee
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