From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9856 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Hardaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: feature suggestion, if I can remember it. Date: 10 Feb 1997 15:18:04 +0100 Organization: Universite de Lausanne, BSP Sender: whardake@iptsun2.unil.ch Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149817 20940 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:36:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA25922 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 06:48:16 -0800 Original-Received: from unilmta3.unil.ch (cisun29.unil.ch [130.223.27.29]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 15:19:55 +0100 Original-Received: from iptsun2.unil.ch by unilmta3.unil.ch with SMTP inbound; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 15:19:49 +0100 Original-Received: by iptsun2.unil.ch (5.x/Unil-3.1/) id AA22397; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 15:18:05 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Face: #qW^}a%m*T^{A:Cp}$R\"38+d}41-Z}uU8,r%F#c#s:~Nzp0G9](s?,K49KJ]s"*7gvRgA SrAvQc4@/}L7Qc=w{)]ACO\R{LF@S{pXfojjjGg6c;q6{~C}CxC^^&~(F]`1W)%9j/iS/ IM",B1M.?{w8ckLTYD'`|kTr\i\cgY)P4 X-Url: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~hardaker In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 08 Feb 1997 10:22:41 +0100 Original-Lines: 38 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.7/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9856 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9856 >>>>> On 08 Feb 1997 10:22:41 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen said: Wes> I thought it would be cool to have user definable group params. For Wes> instance, you could define the parameter 'my-personal-parameter' to Wes> map to some more regular parameter expression (ie, ((display all) Wes> (dummy (progn run-mucho-stuffo)) ...)). This way, for users that have Wes> a lot of groups which should be marked similarily, they don't have to Wes> put them all in one topic if they don't want to, but yet its still Wes> easy to add and maintain a common set of group parameters by rolling Wes> your own. You wouldn't have to change it in every group you were Wes> using to make a change! Lars> Hm... Metaparameters. Is this really necessary now that we have Lars> topic parameters? Yes! Re-read the above, as I said its possible you want all of one set of groups to have a specific set of parameters, but they are all members of topics related to the subject type, not how you want to be reading them. For instance, I want to sort my snmp related groups into one topic, because they are all related subject wise. However, I want to treat them like my inbox because I'm the mailing list maintainer of 2 of the 3 mailing lists and I need to make sure they are answered properly if no one else takes the questions. My inbox has a *huge* set of parameters, which I don't want to copy to each group every time I make a change. Currently I have all these groups in an inbox topic, because I *can't* sort them by subject without copying parameters so I sort by type, which I consider to be more important in this case. I think this would fix up the 'undefined' comment in the topic discussion in the manual (ie, a group is listed in two topics). tell them they can create their own parameters if they want to always apply a parameter to multiple groups. Ok, I'm done typing... (this should be fairly easy shouldn't it?) Wes