Re: Feature Request. Topic Group Parameters...

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

John Griffith <griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

>   t1
>     g1
>     g2
>     t2
>       g1
>       g3
>   t3
>     g2

[Analysis snipped.  I basically agree with everything you said and I
think your conclusion is correct -- a "home topic" is the solution.]

How about looking at this in a different fashion -- use the display in
a more active fashion.  If I put point over g2 in t1 and execute some
command, then it's obvious that I want to do something to that copy of
g2, so g2 would inherit group parameters from the t1 topic.  If I do
the same command on the g2 copy in t3, then I would use the group
parameters in the t3 topic.  (And inheretance from parent topics, etc,
naturally.)  

This means that one can't in general say what
`(gnus-group-read-group "g2")' will do when called from an unknown
point, but user commands executed in a normal fashion would have
predictable outcomes.

This is certainly easy enough to implement, which is why I like it.
:-)  It's also easy to understand, I think, and requires no extra
information from the user on what she considers the "home topic" of
the group to be.

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