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James H.Cloos Jr. <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:

> Can this be set such that the value references the key?
>
> Ie, if the key were eg ^.+\(foo.bar@baz.???\)$ I'd like to make
> the value expand out to whatever was matched w/in the \(\) pair.

I'm not sure, but the example near the end of
<info://gnus/Group+Parameters> suggests that it's possible if you use
`gnus-parameters'.

> I've not been able to track down exactly where the alist get's
> used by the code -- I don't see any reference to it in the .el
> files -- so there must be some pattern-matching there....  

The trick is in the macro `gnus-define-group-parameter'.