From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88081 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: group-mode (&co) not based on special-mode? Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:28:58 -0700 Message-ID: <87po0fk0hx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529897486 32237 195.159.176.226 (25 Jun 2018 03:31:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 03:31:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36295@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jun 25 05:31:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fXIDm-0008Cq-C0 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:31:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fXIEu-0002SH-2A; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 22:32:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fXIEk-0002PM-FQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 22:32:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fXIEj-0002Qx-5R for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 22:32:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fXIEh-0006oy-QR for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:32:15 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fXICT-00070X-Bc for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:29:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:GViscogr1+NM0PDbOWfN/FyXc4I= X-Spam-Score: 1.0 (+) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.4.1 2015-04-28) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.0937 Ham tokens: 0.000-169--6469h-0s--0d--buffers, 0.000-27--1011h-0s--0d--H*M:fsf, 0.000-20--766h-0s--0d--H*UA:Emacs, 0.000-20--756h-0s--0d--H*u:Emacs, 0.000-16--603h-0s--0d--H*u:Gnus Spam tokens: 0.997-32092--585h-25716s--0d--H*r:quimby.gnus.org, 0.995-33106--989h-26832s--0d--HTo:D*gnus.org, 0.993-34101--1278h-27842s--0d--H*RT:quimby.gnus.org, 0.993-34101--1278h-27842s--0d--Hx-spam-relays-internal:quimby.gnus.org, 0.993-34101--1278h-27842s--0d--Hx-spam-relays-internal:80.91.231.51 Autolearn status: no autolearn_force=no 0.2 HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS From and EnvelopeFrom 2nd level mail domains are different -0.0 BAYES_20 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 5 to 20% [score: 0.0937] 0.8 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88081 Archived-At: "Garreau, Alexandre" 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