From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5751 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: sgnus 0.59: `message.el' comments Date: 28 Mar 1996 06:16:46 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146310 1290 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:38:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:38:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA09467 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:47:52 -0800 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 06:16:47 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 06:16:47 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: abraham@dina.kvl.dk's message of 27 Mar 1996 11:46:27 +0100 Original-Lines: 48 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.60/XEmacs 19.13 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5751 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5751 abraham@dina.kvl.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes: > * All variable names have changed. > > I suspect you will have to provide some compatibility package before > adding it to Emacs, or risk getting lynched. > > How about using `mail-' as a prefix instead, less changes is needed > then. I wanted to avoid using all old variables to provide an interface that is as clean as possible. Being overly backwards compatible would muddle the waters, I think. > * gnus-bug didn't work. > > I think it hasn't been converted fully or some such. I don't know if > you got my bug reports, but I didn't get them despite a `BCC: abraham'. I just tried it, and it seems to work... > * Organization: is mandatory in news. > > Is this really right? It's in the default `message-required-news-headers', as it was in the default `gnus-required-headers'... > * Some customization options gone. > > There apparently wasn't an equivalent to `mail-self-blind'. I think > this is good, since you can just use `message-default-headers' > instead. Yup. I removed all those kinds of variables. > * Conversion of other mail packages. > > Will you also convert rmail and mhe to use `message.el', or will a > person who use rmail for mail and Gnus for news have to maintain two > sets of variables for customizing? I definitely want to convert rmail, VM and mh-e to use message.el. rmail fer shure. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen