integrating x-face stuff

[Nick Papadonis <nick@coelacanth.com>]

Hi.

I spent some time trying to set up my X-face: header in gnus.  Since
I'm no lisp god, you can understand how frustrated I was.

Anyway I claim that the GNUS >= v5.8.8 does not have enough
documentation (info file) on setting up the X-face header.  I finally
found how to set it up from some post from 1999 in the group.

Why can't an X-face file be specified in 'customize->gnus'?  Since
they are displayed in gnus, shouldn't people be able to configure
which one to send.

I will include the old threads that brought this to mind:

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I'm not sure what the proper way is, but I've been using the following for
some time, and it works great.  I'm not sure where this came from
originally; presumably one of the prolific contributors to this list.
Another option is to use gnus-posting-styles, IIRC.

It is probably a bug that this isn't covered in the documentation.  I'd
submit a doc patch, but am not confident enough that this is the most
elegant way to do it.

(defun message-insert-x-face ()
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (search-forward mail-header-separator)
    (beginning-of-line nil)
    (insert "X-Face: ")
    (insert-file (expand-file-name "/u/mmp/.xface"))))
(add-hook 'message-send-hook 'message-insert-x-face)

-matt 
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I, for once, also searched for directions on inserting X-Face in gnus
and Xemacs manuals, and found nothing. I think that it should be
covered somewhere.

So, I second the request: could somebody please share the proper way
of inserting x-face header with gnus?

Thanks,
-- 
Arcady Genkin                          
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> So, I second the request: could somebody please share the proper way
> of inserting x-face header with gnus?

I don't know of any "proper" way.
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- Nick