From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37908 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leonard Stiles Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Like (display . all) but hide expirable messages Date: 17 Aug 2001 21:13:28 +0200 Organization: Gnus Information Center Message-ID: <87vgjma49z.fsf@TK212017118241.teleweb.at> References: <87n15953w6.fsf@TK212017118241.teleweb.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035173578 18019 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:12:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 5673 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2001 19:13:31 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (195.204.10.139) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Aug 2001 19:13:31 -0000 Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA21701 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:13:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tk212017118241.teleweb.at Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 998075597 29075 212.17.118.241 (17 Aug 2001 19:13:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Aug 2001 19:13:17 GMT Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 38 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37908 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37908 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > > e.g. (display . (not read expirable)) to get the behaviour you suggest. > > That would be a syntax problem: > > '(display . (read)) > => (display read) > > which means "set the variable `display' to the symbol `read'"; not > "set the `display' group parameter". Ah, yes. However: (Info-goto-node "(gnus)Group Parameters") => `posting-style' [...] For instance, if you want a funky name and signature in this group only, instead of hacking `gnus-posting-styles', you could put something like this in the group parameters: (posting-style (name "Funky Name") (signature "Funky Signature")) Which does not set the variable `posting-style'. (I suppose you could argue that this is because ((name "Funky Name") (signature "Funky Signature")) is not an eval-able form). Also, to be pedantic, in the above example the variable `display' would be set to the value of the variable `read', not the symbol `read'. -- Leonard Stiles