Re: personalized x-face

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

Didier Verna <verna@inf.enst.fr> writes:

>         What would be really nice to have is better ways of specifying how to
> fetch the value for posting style fields: from a function, a file, a plain
> string, a variable etc. You basically would like to write something like:
> 
> ("X-Face" :file "~/.face") or ("Organization" :value "The Gnus Consortium")

That's a good idea.

On the whole, I think that the current posting style implementation is 
lacking.  The counter-intuitive "last value wins" thing; the "some of
these insert things and other set obscure variables" thing.  All the
questions that pop up about these things show that the design is bad.

So I kinda want to re-do it.

The precedence will be the traditional "the first matching element
wins".

Er.

No, now I remember why it is the way it is.  It was imagined that the
user may want to have one slew of settings for a complete hierarchy,
and then some more settings for a particular hierarchy in that
super-hierarchy.  The rational way to do that is the current way.

Ok; so I won't change that.

But, by golly, I'll change the function to insert everything
immediately and not set any variables!  So there!

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