From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: general-purpose Gnus-style matching in a list function?
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 17:17:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppojfuxd.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjocvvd9.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sat, 07 Dec 2013 23:07:14 -0500")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> `gnus-posting-styles' is a good example of a very flexible defcustom
> that gets special treatment so the keys and the values can be almost
> anything: functions, regexps, strings, etc.
>
> It's processed in a special way by `gnus-configure-posting-styles' and I
> was wondering if Gnus has a general-purpose function to do this. If
> not, it should... I would shadow it in the Emacs core actually, it's a
> very common usage pattern.
I don't think there's anything like that in Emacs code. The number of
things that can be in `gnus-posting-styles' is so large that it is
perhaps a bit bewildering...
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2013-12-08 4:07 Ted Zlatanov
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