From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6493 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven L Baur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Customizing user-full-name Date: 02 Jun 1996 13:39:14 -0700 Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.66) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146939 3749 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:48:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA17033 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 14:04:23 -0700 Original-Received: from deanna.miranova.com (steve@deanna.miranova.com [206.190.83.1]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 22:39:52 +0200 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id NAA16769; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 13:39:16 -0700 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 02 Jun 1996 04:35:47 -0700 Original-Lines: 56 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.5/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6493 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6493 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. This is the same patch I posted Sunday to gnu.emacs.gnus, and is against Gnus 5.2.5. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -r1.5 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 1996/06/02 16:11:49 1.5 +++ ChangeLog 1996/06/02 20:37:02 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Sun Jun 2 13:35:55 1996 Steven L Baur + + * message.el: (message-make-from): Add message-user-full-name for + ease of customization. + Sun Jun 2 07:41:20 1996 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen * gnus-topic.el (gnus-topic-remove-group): Only delete first =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/message.el,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -r1.5 message.el --- message.el 1996/06/02 16:11:49 1.5 +++ message.el 1996/06/02 19:40:15 @@ -152,6 +152,10 @@ If t, use `message-user-organization-file'.") ;;;###autoload +(defvar message-user-full-name nil + "Allow user to override neatly /etc/passwd GCOS garbage") + +;;;###autoload (defvar message-user-organization-file "/usr/lib/news/organization" "*Local news organization file.") @@ -1879,7 +1883,8 @@ (defun message-make-from () "Make a From header." (let* ((login (message-make-address)) - (fullname (user-full-name))) + (fullname (or message-user-full-name + (user-full-name))) (when (string= fullname "&") (setq fullname (user-login-name))) (save-excursion -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour. Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone except you in November.