Re: fancy splitting interactively

[Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>]

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.

-- 
Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>