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From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Problem with gnus-parameters
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:08:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762gorl36.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3boqg4act.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:36:34 +0100")

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>>  '(("gmane"      (foo "lala") (bar "zot") (gcc-self . t))
>>    ("emacs"      (foo "emacs")                          ))
>
> [...]
>
>> To me, that inconsistency between group local variables and group
>> parameters is far from obvious.  I'd prefer, if in gmane.emacs gcc-self
>> was active, too, i.e., I'd expect these effects:
>>
>>      gmane.foo:   foo=lala,    bar=zot,    gcc-self
>>      gmane.emacs: foo=emacs,   bar=zot,    gcc-self
>
> Yes, this is clearly a bug, I think:

It was that way as long as I can think of.  I brought that issue up
somewhere in 2008 I think, but didn't get responses.

>     (if symbol
> 	(gnus-group-fast-parameter group symbol allow-list)
>       (nconc
>        (copy-sequence
> 	(funcall gnus-group-get-parameter-function group))
>        (gnus-parameters-get-parameter group)))))
>
> So the "fast" version applies the precedence in a different way than
> the non-fast version does.
>
> I've now fixed the -fast- function to do what it's supposed to.  Give
> it a whirl and see whether I've ironed out all the kinks...

It seems to work fine now.  Thanks a lot!

Bye,
Tassilo



  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-07  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-28 19:54 Tassilo Horn
2011-11-29  4:47 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2011-11-29  8:37   ` Tassilo Horn
2012-01-03 21:15     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-04  7:33       ` Tassilo Horn
2012-01-04 20:03         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-05 10:00           ` Tassilo Horn
2012-01-06 20:41             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-06 20:43               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-06 22:27                 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-01-06 22:44                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-06 22:52                     ` Tassilo Horn
2012-01-06 23:13                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-06 23:37                         ` Tassilo Horn
2012-01-07  0:36                           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-07  8:08                             ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2012-01-06 22:20               ` Tassilo Horn
2012-01-06 22:31                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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