From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40825 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Didier Verna Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: message sending functions harmonization Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:09:37 +0100 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176317 2942 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:58:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:58:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 15981 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2001 17:11:21 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2001 17:11:21 -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 16DqQL-0003QL-00; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:10:33 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:10:20 -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 LAA03859 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:10:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 15952 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2001 17:10:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15947 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2001 17:10:13 -0000 Original-Received: from hermes.epita.fr (163.5.255.10) by gnus.org with SMTP; 11 Dec 2001 17:10:13 -0000 Original-Received: from goa.lrde.epita.fr (mail@goa.lrde.epita.fr [10.223.13.2]) by hermes.epita.fr id fBBIA9p12818 for EPITA Paris France Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:10:09 GMT Original-Received: from uzeb.lrde.epita.fr ([10.223.13.53] ident=mail) by goa.lrde.epita.fr with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16DqKB-0004op-00 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:04:11 +0100 Original-Received: from didier by uzeb.lrde.epita.fr with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16DqPR-00034f-00 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:09:37 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: drv X-Url: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier X-Web: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier X-Home-Page: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:27:30 -0500") X-Face: |j}\)O|k##MrRz#VK$Jy=0r=3Qc,,a/Tr6*JQbE73dy17]2YcmW$9Z&H21e}#~#pgc>dn(is5Bv1l!{1re+Q9suKIOUmOqZs2>QMxHlR;;}kaGYA@HR3D C6 X-Face: 6o|eiKqaHN.ANh8HXDzntcWUOCg\]RsOd.ctvm~*y}Y^R&*a+Co,\s#=HWsw3x$b_n2kJ#g (7u?J^@^xP)f,jUF|0Z'J:|G/bMA5O12*b,7`-Q`=pKsCRIpso07.Y>YB2H{7`?u&yh;C_ZtLHfj Didier Verna 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. Note that in any case, one of these functions will have its default behavior changed. > 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 wh= at > we're already used to seems troublesome. I agree with your suggestion. --=20 Didier Verna, didier@lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (1) 53 14 59 47 94276 Le Kremlin-Bic=EAtre, France Fax.+33 (1) 53 14 59 22 didier@xemac= s.org