Re: Is Username Expansion possible in GNUS?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes:

> I've often used it (or rather, a different local binding that's been
> around for 5 or 6 years) just to double check that I spelled the
> username right. This is particularly important at a large site, like
> MIT, where you have dozens of smiths and hundreds of chens... and a
> one character typo can often yield a valid username, or worse a
> mailing list.

That makes sense.  I sure could use it sometimes -- I often send test
mails to myself, and my user name is "larsi".  I often forget the "i"
part, and I think the user who has the user name "lars" must be
getting rather tider of getting mail from me.  :-)

We do definitely need getpwnam(3) support in Emacs, then.  Anybody
want to write it and send patches to RMS and Chuck?

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