Re: A road map for Oort Gnus

[Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> The things you mention are that way for (more or less) good reasons.
> For instance, you have the group parameters, but you also have
> variables that match on group names that give the same results as
> group parameters.  The reason for that being that some users like to
> write Lisp code, and others like to type `G c' on fifty groups.  And
> so on.  Since people are different, there has to be different ways of
> doing things.

        Having different ways to do things is indeed a good thing (*not* to be
able to type G c fifty times, though :-). I even think there are somes places
at which more ways to do things would be required.

        For instance, I have on my gnus todo list an entry saying "add a
gnus-group-parameters variable", for when that makes sense of course (not
timestamp and stuff). This should be the usual list of (REGEXP VALUE) pairs,
the regexp matching group names, and the value being group parameters. The
inheritance being:

local group-parameters <- topic parameters <- gnus-group-parameters

pretty much like posting styles, actually.


        Having different ways to do it is indeed important but maybe not for
what you're saying here, Lars (people preferring custom or list code). It is
important because there are so many ways to organize your Gnus session that
there's no reason why things should be orthogonal. For instance, I have a
group buffer that is sorted by Mail / News, but then, I have an XEmacs Mail
topic which contains mostly mailing lists, but also some newsgroups... Without
these many ways to do things, it would be a nightmare to setup your
preferences in a concise (though complex) way.

        The question of actually mastering the Ways, and using them
efficiently is another story.

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