Re: patches add variable `gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news'

[Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Oops, I didn't read it carefully.  What about making the default to on
> then, and allow the user to never be queried about it in the future
> ("Don't ask me again")?  People who usually never R to usenet posts
> might find the question useful, and leave it enabled, and other people
> are only annoyed once.

This sounds reasonable.  I'm not exactly sure how to implement this
though.  It reminds me of back when I first used `narrow-to-region'
and it asked me whether I wanted to enable the command permanently.
It doesn't look like I could directly apply novice.el's enable-command
etc. to do this, since there's no command in this case.  (I don't
think we'd want to require confirmation to simply run
gnus-summary-reply).

Maybe the variable `gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news' should default to
'ask.  Then, whenever the variable is used, if it has the value 'ask,
then you pose the question "Don't ask me again?" as you suggested.  If
it has the value nil or t, then just use it.

Does anyone know how to use customize to programmatically set a value
and then make it permanent (i.e. save it to the user's `custom-file')?
I think that would be the best approach to take.
-- 
Benjamin