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From: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Save an article with its subject as default name
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 21:48:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twhahx48.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8jbzkn8.fsf@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 27 2016, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:

> I’m quite new to Gnus, and I was quite surprised when found that in
> contrast to any modern MUA, when I save a single message (‘article’) in
> a file (‘o’), Gnus does not suggest to name it after subject.  

I guess most users save (interesting) articles in groups (e.g. nnml)
and read them with Gnus; No need for a file name based on the subject.

> One problem though: ‘*file-name-sanitize’ is just a placeholder yet,
> i. e. I need a function that takes an arbitrary string and return
> string that is safe to use as a filename.  [...] Could you turn me
> in right direction, please?

See `mm-file-name-rewrite-functions'?

(`gnus-sticky-article' might be useful as well.)

Bye, Reiner.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-03 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-27 13:38 Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-05-29  2:33 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-05-29  6:11   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-03 19:48 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2016-06-04 11:18   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-08 12:33   ` Dmitry Alexandrov

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