Re: gnus-post-method and message-expand-group

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

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

> Well, how about if we incorporate message-x in Gnus, remove
> message-expand-group and add instead an alist of abbrev expansion
> thingies.  Like:
> 
> (defvar message-header-expansion-functions
>    ("^\\(Newsgroups\\|Followup-To\\|Posted-To\\|Gcc\\):" message-x-expand)
>    ("Some-other: " other-expanding-function))
> 
> If none of these match, then we call `tab-to-tab-stop', which will do
> the abbrev abbrev expansion.
> 
> Whaddayouthink?

Well, message-x.el pretty much tries what you are suggesting here, I
think.  There's an alist which gives the expansion function for each
header.  For Newsgroups and Gcc and Followup-to, message-expand-group
is called.

message-x doesn't grok regexes in the alist, though.

And we still need a second function similar to message-expand-group
which looks at gnus-post-method.

I'll try to do what you are suggesting, and I'll post the new
message-x when I'm done.

kai
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