From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83951 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: general-purpose Gnus-style matching in a list function? Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 23:07:14 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87zjocvvd9.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386475695 19005 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2013 04:08:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 04:08:15 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32206@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Dec 08 05:08:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VpVfH-00089A-AV for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 05:08:19 +0100 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 1VpVdW-0000IX-Kc; Sat, 07 Dec 2013 22:06:30 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1VpVdT-0000IK-SF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 07 Dec 2013 22:06:27 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VpVdS-00057j-4w for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 07 Dec 2013 22:06:26 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VpVdQ-0008Pp-5u for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 05:06:24 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VpVdJ-0007LB-Sa for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 05:06:17 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 05:06:17 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 05:06:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8xWwKj23NeDZpnKiUywEDHbpV54= X-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83951 Archived-At: `gnus-posting-styles' is a good example of a very flexible defcustom that gets special treatment so the keys and the values can be almost anything: functions, regexps, strings, etc. It's processed in a special way by `gnus-configure-posting-styles' and I was wondering if Gnus has a general-purpose function to do this. If not, it should... I would shadow it in the Emacs core actually, it's a very common usage pattern. Thanks Ted