From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27749 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jack Vinson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Group parameters and Custom? Date: 05 Dec 1999 09:34:02 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164718 26160 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:45:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA28014 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 17:43:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB13562; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:42:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 05 Dec 1999 16:43:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from epithumia.math.uh.edu (IDENT:tibbs@epithumia.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA27699 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:43:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from tibbs@localhost) by epithumia.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA03864 for ding@hpc.uh.edu; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 17:42:40 -0600 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA24106 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 09:33:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from elmls01.ce.mediaone.net (elmls01.ce.mediaone.net [24.131.128.25]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA26080 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:33:10 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from JACKNMARCI (el02-24-131-167-91.ce.mediaone.net [24.131.167.91]) by elmls01.ce.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA00540 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 09:35:15 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27749 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27749 Well, one of the many problems I had last night was with gnus-subscribe-topics. I happened to set the group-parameter of the topic incorrectly and got a backtrace when Gnus attempted to look at the parameters of that topic. As a new feature, is there any chance that Gnus can do a better job of helping with group parameters? It should have at least tried to parse the parameter I gave it: '(subscribe "nnslashdot") and told me this was the wrong format. Or are there simply too many options for group parameters to be able to quickly check syntax? What about a Custom interface which shows all the settings Gnus knows about for a group or topic? If the user doesn't have a particular option in her group parameters it should be "greyed out" with the default value indicated. ("Default" could be global setting in her .gnus that is different from the Gnus default.) Is this silly? -- Jack Vinson http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson/ Zippy: America!! I saw it all!! Vomiting! Waving! JERRY FALWELLING into your void tube of UHF oblivion!! SAFEWAY of the mind --