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Subject: Re: weird results when setting gnus-parameters
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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 ...