Re: Problem with gnus-parameters

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

>  '(("gmane"      (foo "lala") (bar "zot") (gcc-self . t))
>    ("emacs"      (foo "emacs")                          ))

[...]

> To me, that inconsistency between group local variables and group
> parameters is far from obvious.  I'd prefer, if in gmane.emacs gcc-self
> was active, too, i.e., I'd expect these effects:
>
>      gmane.foo:   foo=lala,    bar=zot,    gcc-self
>      gmane.emacs: foo=emacs,   bar=zot,    gcc-self

Yes, this is clearly a bug, I think:

(gnus-group-find-parameter "nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.test" 'gcc-self)
=> nil

(gnus-group-find-parameter "nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.test")
=> ((foo "emacs") (gcc-self . t) (bar "zot") (foo "lala"))

And it's because of this:

(defun gnus-group-find-parameter (group &optional symbol allow-list)

[...]

    (if symbol
	(gnus-group-fast-parameter group symbol allow-list)
      (nconc
       (copy-sequence
	(funcall gnus-group-get-parameter-function group))
       (gnus-parameters-get-parameter group)))))

So the "fast" version applies the precedence in a different way than the
non-fast version does.

I've now fixed the -fast- function to do what it's supposed to.  Give it
a whirl and see whether I've ironed out all the kinks...

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