From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40509 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Semi-recent addition - mailto local groups Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:01:33 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? 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 1035176047 1277 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:54:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20428 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2001 01:03:01 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2001 01:03:01 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 167ngA-0001dh-00; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:01:54 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:01:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA13328 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:01:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 19430 invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2001 01:01:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19419 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2001 01:01:35 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (qmail-remote@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 Nov 2001 01:01:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29162 invoked by uid 500); 25 Nov 2001 01:01:55 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 24 Nov 2001 11:57:43 +0100") Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40509 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40509 Simon Josefsson wrote: > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: >> Simon Josefsson wrote: >>> I modified it a bit, and committed it. (Don't use "*" as the first >>> character of variable documentation unless the user should set the >>> variable with M-x set-variable RET.) >> >> Why shouldn't that be allowed here? It seems to work for me. > > It works, but a "*" as the first character in variable documentation > signals to Emacs that the variable is something that the user would > like to be able to set interactively with M-x set-variable RET. Right. M-x set-variable RET is what I'm saying works for me. (I though maybe the customize stuff might break it somehow, but it didn't.) I can see that users would not set the variable this way very often, but I don't see why we should prohibit it. What harm does it do to allow it? paul