From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5869 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: couple of feature requests, a question Date: 08 Apr 1996 19:30:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146410 1639 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:40:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:40:10 +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 LAA03775 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 11:08:56 -0700 Original-Received: from hler.ifi.uio.no (4867@hler.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.23]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 19:30:48 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by hler.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 19:30:43 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 33 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5869 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5869 wrobert2@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (St. Suika Fenderson Roberts) writes: > GS> gnus-single-article-buffer's value is t > > Why does this default to true? Because I think it's a good idea not to force gratuitous interface changes upon people. Having multiple article buffers might annoy some people. > >> third, a question: what are the "#'"s for in mail-header.el for? > >> They break compilation under 19.29, but 19.30 doesn't complain, so > >> I was wondering. > > GS> from the Info file: > > I know that. I was just wondering what they are for. Isn't "#'" just Common Lispese for "'"? > Lars posted something about the 'raw s being in there to deal with the > fact that emacs dumps one into cc mode if the folder name ends in .cc . > unless some other MTA/MUA needs the folder to end in .cc it seems the > most reasonable fix is `don't end your folder names in .cc' rather > than breaking compression support. Or "comp.lang.c". I don't think it's inconceivable that people would want to call a folder something like that -- and they should be able to. Which is why those `raw's are needed. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."