gnus-alias-get-something

[Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>]

Aloha everyone,

The docs for gnus-alias-identity-alist seem to indicate that
an element of the list can be a function that returns a
string.  I have a need for that in the signature field, which
gnus-alias.el accesses like this:

(defun gnus-alias-get-sig (ID)
  "Return the SIGNATURE portion of ID."
  (gnus-alias-get-something ID 6))

But we also have this:

(defsubst gnus-alias-get-something (ID N)
  "Return the Nth something from ID."
  (let ((rv (nth N ID)))
    (if (and (stringp rv) (= (length rv) 0)) nil rv)))

I tried this on the signature field:

(concat start-lisp-home ".signature")

where start-lisp-home is previously defined as

"~/data/elisp"

and got a symbolp error.

Any insights appreciated.  Probably user error!

-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

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