From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69948 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Seb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: group parameter and group-local variables Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:16:22 -0500 Organization: University of Manitoba Message-ID: <87k4njkc8p.fsf@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282418230 19383 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2010 19:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:17:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@lists.math.uh.edu Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18334@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Aug 21 21:17:08 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmtYx-0008GM-Mn for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:17:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OmtYT-0001aq-Oh; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:16:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OmtYR-0001aV-Sz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:16:35 -0500 Original-Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OmtYQ-0001mw-OI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:16:35 -0500 Original-Received: from pd7ml3no-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.153.150]) by pd7mo1no-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 21 Aug 2010 13:16:29 -0600 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=H95gfW32JB/XYJSBuOTvJ8IIviFcsPdfxXHbM7LS6jM= c=1 sm=1 a=Uu_VWuJ5L9kA:10 a=VphdPIyG4kEA:10 a=SBk0VD5RLtBA4KUBIqACxg==:17 a=Tl1WYVZYb1jhDbwsjFgA:9 a=MjDxLO5i1dSK6WKuSEc_u8oI1PwA:4 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org) ([24.77.73.195]) by pd7ml3no-dmz.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 21 Aug 2010 13:16:29 -0600 Mail-Followup-To: ding@lists.math.uh.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69948 Archived-At: Hi, I wanted to set `bbdb-always-add-addresses' to have a local value of nil in some groups, which according to the manual (Section 2.10) can be done by: (add-to-list 'gnus-newsgroup-variables 'bbdb-always-add-addresses) and then 'G c' in the group where I want it turned off and adding this in the Variables section: Variables: Set variables local to the group you are entering. More INS DEL Variable: bbdb-always-add-addresses Value: nil INS However, now `bbdb-always-add-addresses' remains nil globally. What could be going on? Cheers, -- Seb