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

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

jhbrown@ai.mit.edu (Jeremy H. Brown) writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> 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).

Ah, so when Gnus is changed to record the buffer name in a variable,
then part of the need goes away.

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

And what to do about the other half?  What would be the right way to
remove the need for that half?

Are you willing to work on the proper integration of ifile into Gnus,
and would you sign the necessary papers for inclusion in Gnus?

kai

PS: It might be good to use message instead of print to provide
    debugging messages.
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