From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79447 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Where are group parameters stored? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:26:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87r55v1hks.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <8762ncnb5a.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310495234 18584 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2011 18:27:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27743@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jul 12 20:27:10 2011 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 1Qghfp-0001OG-DT for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:27:09 +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 1Qghf6-0002uG-94; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:26:24 -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 1Qghf4-0002tz-Tb for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:26:22 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qghez-0003Yy-RR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:26:22 -0500 Original-Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qghex-0001Mi-Ir for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:26:15 +0200 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7128420642; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:26:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:26:14 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=iXTWBkaD1PMH+Zhqr2FORwVC0Kc=; b=KiwxseytA8DchJZGDImt0mknUROznsFpQS1DAdI+/N7GR/2My1BCyw+fg9lDsx0sYofQlD0/0EtDP2P9UR/kboj2PKVzuSUwFF2e6IZ9Gf4V4tQTJVppzt01QWNUwufP3uoxOy2c1EF3GgzRVKat9nSLyM/cgwRUIgGpuGLYWQQ= X-Sasl-enc: CpiWT/A6QVol4s3HzpvnJW5jTYl/6k8mnx9duSifHgb8 1310495173 Original-Received: from thinkpad (77-23-199-184-dynip.superkabel.de [77.23.199.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7429740174F; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:26:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Dave Abrahams's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:21:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79447 Archived-At: Dave Abrahams writes: Hi Dave, >> If you specify them using `G c' or `G p' on a group, then I think >> they go in ~/.newsrc.eld, but I might be wrong. > > Okay, that seems problematic. That's one reason why I put them in my ~/.gnus.el. Another reason is that then I can use some kind of "parameter inheritance", e.g.: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq gnus-parameters `((,(rx (or "emacs" "gnus")) (gnus-button-emacs-level 10)) (,(rx "nnimap+") ;; general mail stuff (gnus-use-scoring nil) (gcc-self . t)) (,(rx "nnimap+Uni:ml/") ;; specifics for uni mailinglists (gcc-self . "nnimap+Uni:Sent")) (,(rx "nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.mailinglists.") ;; specifics for other mailinglists (gcc-self . "nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.Sent Items") (gnus-use-scoring t)))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > Shouldn't everything you specify with `G c' or `G p' be stored as a > regular customization? IIUC, .newsrc.eld changes very dynamically > (e.g. storing article marks), whereas group parameters are the sort of > thing I'd probably want to check into a Git repository somewhere. Am > I missing something? No, I agree. Not that this changes anything. :-) Bye, Tassilo