From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6417 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Miscelleous notes/bugs Date: 28 May 1996 21:44:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146875 3522 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:47:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:47:55 +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 NAA18427 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 13:50:34 -0700 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 ; Tue, 28 May 1996 21:59:32 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 28 May 1996 21:59:29 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Raja R Harinath's message of 27 May 1996 22:22:19 +0000 Original-Lines: 35 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.2/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6417 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6417 Raja R Harinath writes: > * Emacs 19.31 timers > > Should `gnus-demon' be rewritten to use the new API of Emacs timers > (run-with-timer, run-with-idle-timer)? Yes. > * `derived.el' > > I saw `derived.el' in the Emacs `lisp/' directory. It appears to > support major-mode inheritance (keymaps, syntax-tables, etc., are > automatically copied on derivation.) Should "grouplens" and other > variants of the "summary" mode use this mechanism? I don't think so. `derived.el' is for inheriting between major modes. GroupLens (and the rest) use minor modes. > * `nn*.el' independent of `gnus*.el'? Yes. > Can `message.el' use some of the features of `nn*.el' without loading > the rest of Gnus? (`message-post-method' uses one of the "nn*" > backends.) If so, can message archiving be supported without loading > Gnus? That should be no problem. Just call, say, `nnml-request-scan' at will. No need to start Gnus first. (Not that I have ever tried this, though. :-) -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."