From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7412 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Feature Request. Topic Group Parameters... Date: 01 Aug 1996 22:49:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147729 7136 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:02:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:02:09 +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 PAA24876 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:05:35 -0700 Original-Received: from hler.ifi.uio.no (hler.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.23]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:58:38 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by hler.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:58:53 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: John Griffith's message of 01 Aug 1996 10:20:40 +0200 Original-Lines: 35 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.3/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7412 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7412 John Griffith 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. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."