From: Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>
Cc: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: custom and nnoo
Date: 20 Aug 1998 21:53:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilusoira0q0.fsf@xiphias.pdc.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "20 Aug 1998 19:03:14 +0200"
Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> > If I understand nnoo correctly, a `defcoostom' would be
> > meaningless because `defvoo'ed variables aren't really variables,
> > but server parameters (or something like that.) They can change
> > whenever you change the server in Gnus, for instance.
>
> In some cases, setting these `variables' via `setq' is sufficient.
> For these cases it would be nice if one could use Custom, too.
If this is enough, shouldn't the variable just be defvar'ed? The only
point in defvoo'ing variables is to let them have different values for
different servers. Or am I missing something?
(And if you defvar it you can, of course, defcustom it...)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-20 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-20 15:59 Kai Grossjohann
1998-08-20 16:48 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-08-20 17:03 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-08-20 19:53 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
1998-08-20 22:29 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-08-21 0:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-20 19:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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