From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41237 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: format-spec.el: feature wish Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 07:24:41 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen 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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176663 5033 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:04:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 28468 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2001 06:25:47 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 31 Dec 2001 06:25:47 -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 16Kvsq-0002zL-00; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:25:16 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:25:07 -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 AAA08316 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:24:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 28446 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2001 06:24:53 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28441 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2001 06:24:53 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 31 Dec 2001 06:24:53 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16Kvt2-0003Bb-00 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 07:25:28 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1009779927 12071 195.204.10.148 (31 Dec 2001 06:25:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Dec 2001 06:25:27 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Jim O'Rourke's _I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And A 1, 2, 3, 4_: "And A 1, 2, 3, 4" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: |J Right now, it appears that the SPECIFICATION argument of FORMAT-SPEC > should be an alist where the keys are characters and the values are > strings. > > WIBNI the values could be something else, too, which would then be > evaluated? > > Since anything but strings as values aren't useful at the moment, this > would be upward compatible. How would you use this? I'm having difficulty envisioning what you could express with this that you can't do (easier) with the specs themselves... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen