From: lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: weird results when setting gnus-parameters
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:49:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87627w2u2p.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nngzc1x.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:20:26 +0200")
Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
Awww that's what I was trying to avoid ... Maybe there is no good way
around that when you want to use gnus. Hmmm ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-02 17:49 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
2012-09-02 17:49 ` lee [this message]
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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