Re: nndiary: how to add appointments

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
>
>> nnimap has a different approach: there is the variable nnimap-news-groups,
>> and hitting `C-u a' on them prepares a posting.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
>         I think `C-u a' is deeply bound to "create a message, either mail or
> news, depending on the current group" in people's mind, and that would be bad
> to change this. 

Right.  nnimap-news-groups helps to create the _right_ kind of
message: for shared IMAP folders.

> Of course, we could have a `gnus-news-groups' variable defaulting to
> nil, which would be safe, but then, I'd have to make my hands forget
> about `C-u a' on these groups, and use `C-u m' instead.
>
>
> [ a doubt comes to my mind here ... ]
>
>
> Jee !! `C-u m' doesn't behave as I expect :-( It doesn't honor the to-list
> parameter of my mail groups :-(

That's right!  I use C-u a on those groups.  Since a mail to the
mailing list address is just like a posting to a newsgroup,¹ `a' is
obviously the right key, isn't it?

kai
¹ Only the transfer protocol is different.  But the point is: `a' is
  for group messages, `m' is for messages to individual people.

  But for nndiary, `a' would be for 1 person, which is not quite a
  group.  Hm.  Your wife is a big hippo!²

² Read Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times", about screaming "Argh" in
  various languages...
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