Re: Gnorb and org-refile-use-outline-path

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> > So like this?
> >
> > (eval-after-load 'org
> >   (unless gnorb-gnus-refile-use-outline-path
> >     (setq gnorb-gnus-refile-use-outline-path
> > 	  org-refile-use-outline-path)))
>
> Quoted, of course....

(or just `with-eval-after-load'?).

You can do that, but of course only if
gnorb-gnus-refile-use-outline-path -> nil is not a significant value.
Which, I guess, is in your case.  There should still be a way for the
user to set gnorb-gnus-refile-use-outline-path nil while having
org-refile-use-outline-path non-nil.

What I often do in my code instead is: I make such options have an extra
dedicated value, say 'use-org-value-maybe, to mean, in this case, use
the org value or 'file, for example And in the code, whenever the
variable is referenced, I would use

(let ((org-refile-use-outline-path
       (if (eq gnorb-gnus-refile-use-outline-path 'use-org-value-maybe)
           (or org-refile-use-outline-path 'file)
         gnorb-gnus-refile-use-outline-path)))
  code...)

That's cleaner than silently changing values of options which can lead
to confusion.  You would want to make that dedicated value the default,
obviously.


Michael.