From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56627 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: guns-parameters dynamic updates Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:19:38 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87hdwyz8b9.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <877jy5djfg.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> <873c8tdj6a.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> <4nhdx8mgz4.fsf_-_@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <87znavyfiy.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> <4n7jxznqh1.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078823997 13418 80.91.224.253 (9 Mar 2004 09:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5167@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Mar 09 10:19:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B0dOy-0000Ln-00 for ; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:19:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B0dOd-0003jf-00; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:19:31 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B0dOU-0003jX-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:19:22 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821353A0026 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 03:19:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B0dOS-0008FR-00 for ; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:19:20 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1078823960 31522 213.203.244.156 (9 Mar 2004 09:19:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:19:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DPD6wxxT5296keTifUWxjbt0ojk= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56627 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56627 Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Fri, 05 Mar 2004, kai@emptydomain.de wrote: > >> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> >>> This made me wonder, why not have functionality in Gnus that >>> "gathers" all the group/topic parameters into the gnus-parameters >>> variable, and then the opposite functionality, that would take >>> gnus-parameters and apply its values to all the known groups, >>> whenever they apply? >>> >>> Would this be useful to anyone? I would love it, because then I >>> would set group/topic parameters individually with `G p', and then >>> one command would gather all my customizations into >>> gnus-parameters. >> >> It seems that gnus-parameters has no `G c' like interface. So what >> would be really cool is a way to say `G c' and then say "apply this >> to all groups matching the following regex". > > Would this be possible? We would need to modify the functions that > generate parameter definitions (in gnus.el I think). But it > certainly would be cool. Well, `G c' certainly converts the stuff entered by the user into a parameter list. I don't know whether this piece of code can be used from elsewhere, or whether it directly sets the parameter. But if it is possible to get the parameter list, then we just stuff this into gnus-parameters, no? Kai