From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Problem with gnus-parameters
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:33:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h17udki.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3obukfpy5.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:15:14 +0100")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
Hi Lars,
>> From user's perspective, the posting styles approach is extremely
>> convenient, because I don't need to duplicate information. Now, to
>> achieve what I want, I need to duplicate information five times that
>> would be there implicitly with the iterative first-to-last posting
>> style application approach.
>
> There's advantages to the "cumulative" approach, and there's
> advantages to the "first match wins" approach, and Gnus has gone a bit
> back and forth on what makes most sense in each case.
>
> Which is how we ended up in the present condition. :-)
Yeah, right. Doing it cumulatively for posting styles,
last-match-wins-ly for group parameters, but again cumulatively for
group local parameters (both specified in `gnus-parameters') seems like
a fine compromise then. We should consider forming a political
party. ;-)
I can live with the current situation. It's just that I think it's not
obvious, and it's not documented.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-04 7:33 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 [this message]
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
2012-01-06 22:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-01-06 22:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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