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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE
Subject: Re: Posting Styles: message-fetch-reply-field always returns nil
Date: 19 Apr 1999 14:58:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vaf4smcn4x3.fsf@ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "19 Apr 1999 08:29:10 +0200"

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

  > nospam2159@daimi.au.dk (Peter von der Ahé) writes:
  > 
  > > Would it be possible to setup the posting styles when
  > > message-fetch-reply-field can return something interesting?
  > 
  > No, because the posting style stuff has to be run in the Message
  > buffer so that it can set buffer-local variables to influence Message
  > to generate the headers (and stuff) that it wants to.

Wasn't there a function which fetched headers from the original
message (the one being replied to)?  Or is there just this idiom?

(save-excursion
  (set-buffer gnus-article-buffer)
  (gnus-fetch-field "foo"))

kai
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-04-18 20:16 Peter von der Ahé
1999-04-19  6:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-19 12:58   ` Kai.Grossjohann [this message]
1999-04-21 19:01     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-22 15:22 ` David S. Goldberg

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