From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: group-mode (&co) not based on special-mode?
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:28:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po0fk0hx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hgrjklzytpin.wok.xxuns.g6.gal@galex-713.eu>
"Garreau, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Why isn’t group-mode (and other read-only modes, such as summary-mode)
> not based on special mode? so that I can consistently rebind all
> buffer-changing commands to more useful ones for all read-only buffers,
> not one mode per mode?
My guess is that the Gnus code predates the common convention of using
special-mode for these kinds of buffers. That's something I was
intending to get around to (as well as having all the various Gnus modes
inherit from a master do-nothing "gnus-mode"), but haven't yet.
Maybe make a bug report?
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-25 3:28 UTC|newest]
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2018-06-24 10:08 Garreau, Alexandre
2018-06-25 3:28 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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