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Subject: Re: Customizing user-full-name
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>>>>> "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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