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ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> It is cute, but we'd better let users use %uX instead of adding %q
> into g-s-l-f-a.  For example, (defalias 'gnus-user-format-function-X
> 'gnus-user-date).

Isn't %uX reserved for user customizations?  Frank's proposal is to
become part of Gnus, and therefore not for user-specific stuff,
anymore.

Yes, we might run out of letters soon.  But I think it might be better
in this case to allow something like %(foo) or %{foo} or %[foo] style
longer identifiers.

Opinions?

kai
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