Re: Where are group parameters stored?

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
>
>> How do you make groups inherit parameters that have been set
>> previously?  What I don't understand in particular is what the comma
>> (`,') in an entry does ... I can see that (rx "something") matches
>> strings like "something" and "something good".
>
> Nono, see Peter's mail and my reply to him.
>
>> So is it the comma that activates the inheritance?
>
> No, the "inheritance" is only that a group name may be matched by more
> than one entry regexp in gnus-parameters, and that's what those rx forms
> evaluate to.

That's something that didn't become clear to me from reading the
documentation.  Some of my entries match many groups while others match
only one particular group which may also be matched by a more generic
entry.  I was wondering whether the order in which the entries appear in
the list matters or not and if there was any influence to a particular
group from all the matches or not.

Then there are little glitches to make things more difficult to figure
out, like (gcc-self . "some.group") being ignored when the group has a
posting style that sets headers.

Your example with the inheritance would be great to have in the
documentation.