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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Customizing user-full-name
Date: 03 Jun 1996 00:14:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ohn1741j.fsf@deanna.miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 02 Jun 1996 23:08:31 -0700

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

Lars> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>> Changing the user-full name is a problem.  Here is my proposed
>> treatment of it.  This patch adds a variable called
>> message-user-full-name which can be used for customization.

Lars> Emacs just has the `user-full-name' function return the
Lars> `user-full-name' variable, sort of.  I think it would be nice if
Lars> that was the case on XEmacs as well.

Lars> If that's not a good idea -- how do users change their full names
Lars> under XEmacs?

chfn, or vipw.  ;-)  It looks like this can be customized via the NAME
environment variable as well.  This stuff is all hardcoded in C.

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      reply	other threads:[~1996-06-03  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-06-02 11:35 Gnus v5.2.5 is released Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-02 20:39 ` Customizing user-full-name Steven L Baur
1996-06-03  6:08   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-03  7:14     ` Steven L Baur [this message]

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