From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23157 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: personalized x-face Date: 12 Jun 1999 05:13:06 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160942 516 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:42:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA07565 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:36:30 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAB06983; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:36:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:36:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA06049 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:36:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (bang.netfonds.no [195.1.89.231]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA07523 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:35:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA06906; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 05:36:22 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Joanna Russ' _What Are We Fighting For?_ X-Now-Playing: Basement Jaxx's _Remedy_: "Dont Give Up" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Didier Verna's message of "21 Apr 1999 09:52:57 +0200" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070086 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.86) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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! -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen