Re: group and topic parameters (was: nnimap against Cyrus imapd just stopped working)

[rintaman@cs.Helsinki.FI (Janne Rinta-Mänty)]

Reiner Steib 2002-07-11T18:34:43Z:
> On Thu, Jul 11 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:
>> Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

>>> - Setting topic parameters via `gnus-parameters'. [...]

I think it would be clearer to have a different alist for topics.

>> Hm.  If you find somebody to write it :-)

> That would be nice to have. IMHO having a variable for group
> parameters, but none for topic parameters is a somehow inconsistent.

<AOL>Me too!</AOL>

That somebody who writes it might also want to answer the question in
<URL:http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/200201/msg00912.html>
namely, is the current precedence of parameters good or not.

Now it is

1. group parameters
2. topic parameters
3. gnus-parameters

Where would the new gnus-topic-parameters (or something) go?  I had a
look at this in January and this became the biggest problem.  IIRC it
would be very easy to get the new topic parameter variable between 2
and 3.  But then the precedence order of group and topic parameters in
variables would be different from the "real" parameters.  It would be
a mess when moving the "real" parameters to .gnus.

IMHO a more natural (and consistent with the manual) order would be

1. group parameters
2. gnus-parameters
3. topic parameters

and the gnus-topic-parameters-to-be variable would be number 4.

-- 
Janne Rinta-Mänty