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From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Where are group parameters stored?
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:26:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxggra6c.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h7kesnt.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> (lee@yun.yagibdah.de's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:25:10 +0200")

lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:

Hi!

>> 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.

Yes, the parameters are applied from first to last, so you can use later
entries to override former entries.

> 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.

You set the Gcc: header using posting styles?  Or is gcc-self not
applied whenever the posting styles set some other header?  The latter
would be a bug, IMHO.

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
Sent from my Emacs



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-14 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-08 13:31 Dave Abrahams
2011-07-08 13:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-07-12 17:21   ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-12 18:26     ` Tassilo Horn
2011-07-13  0:54       ` lee
2011-07-13  7:13         ` Tassilo Horn
2011-07-13 20:05           ` lee
2011-07-13 20:50             ` inheritatively specifying group parameters (was: Where are group parameters stored?) lee
2011-07-13 21:18               ` inheritatively specifying group parameters Peter Münster
2011-07-14  6:16                 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-07-14 16:05                   ` lee
2011-07-14  6:19             ` Where are group parameters stored? Tassilo Horn
2011-07-14 16:25               ` lee
2011-07-14 18:26                 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2011-07-14 19:18                   ` lee
2011-07-14 17:20       ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-13  5:23     ` Steinar Bang
2011-07-19 16:49     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-13  5:18 ` Steinar Bang

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