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Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> wrote:
>   PJ> Use normal variables instead of gnus-article-banner-alist entries, and
>   PJ> use `, in gnus-parameters.
>   PJ> (setq my-banner-1 "regexp-1"
>   PJ>       my-banner-2 "regexp-2"
>   PJ>       gnus-parameters
>   PJ>       `(("group1"
>   PJ>          (banner . ,my-banner-1))
>   PJ>         ("group2"
>   PJ>          (banner . ,(concat my-banner-1 "\\|" my-banner-2)))))
>
> Yep, that works quite well.  But I'd rather use
> 'gnus-article-banner-alist' than define a whole stack of little
> variables.  However, your suggestion helped me solve another little
> problem I had, so thank you.

Well, the variables are used at the time gnus-parameters is defined,
not when the parameters are used.  So if you just don't want to
pollute the global variable namespace, a let form would work here too.
FWIW.


paul