From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39687 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new Mail-Followup-To patch...please take a look... Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:38:04 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87wv1m9y6j.fsf@mclinux.com> <87bsixhk7t.fsf@mclinux.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175359 29299 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:42:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:42:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 9494 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2001 17:40:40 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 2001 17:40:40 -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 15wRzX-0007tw-00; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:38:59 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:38:36 -0500 (CDT) 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 MAA12730 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:38:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 9428 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2001 17:38:32 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9423 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2001 17:38:31 -0000 Original-Received: from sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (130.225.40.227) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Oct 2001 17:38:31 -0000 Original-Received: from ssv2.dina.kvl.dk (ssv2.dina.kvl.dk [130.225.40.226]) by sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id TAA05234; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:38:04 +0200 Original-Received: from abraham by ssv2.dina.kvl.dk with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15wRye-0006Dr-00; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:38:04 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:28:12 -0400") Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39687 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39687 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Per Abrahamsen wrote: >> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: >>>> +(defvar message-subscribed-address-functions '(ignore) >> >> Why put "ignore" in the list? > > So Gnus can differentiate between the default value and the user's > explicit nil setting. Gnus automatically adds its function only if > the user hasn't provided a setting. Ah, I missed that. That makes sense. > I think it's defvar because someone thought defcustom couldn't handle > a list of functions, or the '(ignore) default. I have next to no > knowledge of customize, so I don't know if this is true. defcustom can handle anything, you don't even need supply a ":type" argument (it defaults to "sexp"). Og a :group argument, but not doing that is kind of rude. It does require a value and a doc string, but if these are provided defcustom can always where defvar can be used. >> Why would we ever want MFT in the messsage buffer? To test it? >> >> I thought it was supposed to be inserted automatically when the user >> send the message. > > It's inserted automatically only if the user didn't supply one > manually. It can be used manually just like Followup-To, to direct > the thread toward a subset of the lists, etc. That makes sense too.