Re: fancy splitting interactively

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:

> Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> Right, that's pretty much what I meant -- if I want to send an email as
>>> Eric Abrahamsen, International Man of Mystery, complete with custom
>>> headers and signature, I don't want to have to navigate to the "Man of
>>> Mystery" group and compose from there. There probably isn't such a
>>> group, and even if there were, that's not really what I *mean*.
>>
>> Yeah, that makes sense.
>>
>>> We'd have to figure out how these identities would interact with
>>> composing from a group, but that could actually be interesting. A
>>> group's posting styles could say "use identity B when composing from
>>> this group", for example.
>>
>> ...but this is how Gnus already works now.  Or am I missing something?
>>
>>> In short, in several cases I have gone through multiple groups and set
>>> the same headers on all those groups' posting styles. It would make more
>>> sense to me to specify that all these groups use the same identity.
>>
>> Oh, I think you're just missing the fact that this is Gnus, so you don't
>> need to be mucking about in the properties of individual groups and can
>> just use elisp.  :)
>>
>> (setq gnus-posting-styles
>>       '(("."
>>          (address "eagle@eyrie.org")
>>          (name "Russ Allbery")
>>          (organization "The Eyrie")
>>          (signature-file "~/docs/sigs/eyrie")
>>          (eval
>>           (setq gnus-message-archive-group (rra-archive-group "mail"))))
>>
>>         ((or (string-match "^comp\\.lang\\.perl" gnus-newsgroup-name)
>>              (string-match "^nnml:project\\.perl" gnus-newsgroup-name))
>>          (address "rra@cpan.org")
>>          (signature-file "~/docs/sigs/perl"))
>>
>>         ((and (string= "news.software.nntp" gnus-newsgroup-name)
>>               (message-news-p))
>>          (signature-file "~/docs/sigs/help-newsgroup"))
>>
>>         ((string= "nnml:project.inn" gnus-newsgroup-name)
>>          (signature-file "~/docs/sigs/help-list"))))
>>
>> and so forth.  All matching settings are applied in order, so put more
>> specific entries later.
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Posting-Styles.html
>>
>> But you're right that mine is based on my current group, so I have to
>> navigate to the appropriate group to use a particular style.  Although
>> note the documentation of gnus-posting-styles: you can run arbitrary elisp
>> to figure out what style to use, among other things.  So if you can figure
>> out some other piece of information Gnus has available to select on, you
>> can already use that to determine the posting style.
>>
>> But I don't think there's an easy way to give you something like Gmail's
>> drop-down list of identities to pick from right now.
>
>
> Isn't this what Gnus-alias does? 
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusAlias

Yes, I mentioned very package early on, as doing pretty much exactly
what I had in mind.

Does anyone have any particular opinions about maybe making that part of
message.el?

Eric