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Subject: Re: message sending functions harmonization
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Organization: What did you have in mind?  A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
>         I'd like to make these function more consistent, and use a prefix
> convention more similar to that of their group buffer counterpart:
> - by default, just prepare simple mail or news
> - with ARG, use the current group (the counterpart of 'group under point' in
>   the group buffer)

I think this would break many folks' finger training.  How about
reversing them?  If I'm composing a message from within a group, I
expect it (and nearly always want it) to use that group's information.
A prefix arg to disable that could be useful, but needing the arg to
get what we're already used to seems troublesome.

> - with ARG = 1, prompt for group

No problem there.


paul