Re: Add hooks to Gnus on move/edit/delete?

[jhbrown@ai.mit.edu (Jeremy H. Brown)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> I've just started using ifile together with Jeremy's wonderful
> ifile-gnus.el.  It really rocks.

Thanks for the kind words!

> But of course it doesn't make much sense to advise the nnml
> functions, instead we would like to provide hooks that can be called
> when articles are moved.

Absolutely agreed.  The advice is very much just a hack to make it
work with the stable distributions; I only went that route after
determining that the hooks didn't (yet) exist.

> I don't quite understand the meaning/purpose of the
> nnmail-article-group advice, though.

ifile-gnus is set up to do two things:
- provide a recommendation to you to use during splits
- record your actual decision, whether or not it was what ifile
  recommended

The nnmail-article-group advice works on both problems.

First, it sticks the article buffer in the variable
"ifile-article-buffer"; the ifile functions that you use in the split
rely on this variable to hide the fact that, as discussed here
recently, the actual name of the buffer varies depending on how the
nnmail-article-group is entered (initial split or respooling or
whatever).

Second, after the split has been performed, the advice runs ifile
record the actual split decision made.

Jeremy