From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16141 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: custom and nnoo Date: 20 Aug 1998 21:53:59 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.8.5 - "Nishi-Takaoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155060 26073 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:04:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hrvoje Niksic , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA07008 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:56:27 -0700 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by sandy.calag.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA24097 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:59:26 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24091 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAK16054; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:57:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:55:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA16006 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:54:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from xiphias.pdc.kth.se (xiphias.pdc.kth.se [130.237.221.226]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA26416 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:54:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from jas@localhost) by xiphias.pdc.kth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27469; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:53:59 +0200 (METDST) Original-To: Kai Grossjohann X-Emacs: Emacs 20.2, MULE 3.0 (MOMIJINOGA) In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "20 Aug 1998 19:03:14 +0200" Original-Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Semi-gnus 6.8.13 (based on Gnus 5.6.37; for SEMI 1.8, FLIM 1.8/1.9) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16141 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16141 Kai Grossjohann 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...)