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From: Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Date header rewrite
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:50:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <smufws5fic6.fsf@linuxpal.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871v3p69ij.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:13:08 -0800")

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com> writes:
>
>> So I propose:
>>
>>   variable to say how many date/time components to show.  Currently this
>>   is 3, but I would default to 2.
>>
>>   variable to suppress other than MSD when zero.  currently this is t,
>>   but I would argue the default should be nil.
>
> I think this is way, way more customisation than what a frivolous
> feature like this warrants.

The problem is that the hard-coded defaults you chose are viewed as too
flashy by many.  So if you don't suppress zero MSD, and change to 2
components then probably there wouldn't be critical mass in wanting it
more complicated.


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-03 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31  1:56 Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-31  8:07 ` Francis Moreau
2011-01-31  9:38   ` Rupert Swarbrick
2011-01-31 10:34 ` Robert Pluim
2011-01-31 10:43   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-31 11:30     ` Robert Pluim
2011-02-01  1:55       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01  7:42         ` Robert Pluim
2011-02-01 19:23         ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-03  4:14           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-31 13:49 ` Greg Troxel
2011-02-01  1:07   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01  1:47     ` Richard Riley
2011-02-01  2:04       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01  2:25         ` Richard Riley
2011-02-01  2:38           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01  2:44             ` Richard Riley
2011-02-01  3:10               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01  6:41                 ` Richard Riley
2011-02-01 18:23   ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-02-01  6:05 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-02-01  6:14   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 17:05     ` James Cloos
2011-02-02 11:18       ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-01 18:54     ` Greg Troxel
2011-02-03  4:13       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-03 11:50         ` Greg Troxel [this message]
2011-02-01  8:11 ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-01  8:23   ` Robert Pluim
2011-02-01  9:17     ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-01 10:06       ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-01 10:11         ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-01 10:19         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 10:08       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 10:11         ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-01 10:08       ` Robert Pluim
2011-02-01 10:09     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 11:15       ` Robert Pluim
2011-02-03  4:10         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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