From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51275 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Niklas Morberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Documentation for expiry target in group customize Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:12:37 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <843ckul6wm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049785992 974 80.91.224.249 (8 Apr 2003 07:13:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Tue Apr 08 09:13:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192nI7-0000FZ-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:13:11 +0200 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 192nHr-0001wX-00; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 02:12:55 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 08 Apr 2003 02:13:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [64.157.176.121]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA04693 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 02:13:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 12305 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2003 07:12:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12300 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2003 07:12:40 -0000 Original-Received: from krynn.se.axis.com (193.13.178.10) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Apr 2003 07:12:40 -0000 Original-Received: from PCNIKLAS2 (dh10-13-8-222.se.axis.com [10.13.8.222]) by krynn.se.axis.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Debian-2woody1) with ESMTP id h387CbGs010179 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:12:37 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <843ckul6wm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann's?= message of "Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:27:21 +0200") Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.2 (windows-nt) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51275 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51275 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Niklas Morberg writes: > >> Overrides `nnmail-expiry-target', which see. >> >> I might be daft, but I can't make sense of that last >> sentence. Is it correct? > > When you customize the group, you set the group parameters. The > variable nnmail-expiry-target takes effect for all groups that don't > have such a parameter. Type C-h v nnmail-expiry-target RET for the > documentation of that variable. I understand what the parameter does, it's just that I can't make sense of the sentence in the documentation. What does "which see" mean? English is not my native language, but I speak it well (or so I thought :). > (Isn't the variable name clickable?) Sure. Niklas