gnus-summary-supersede-article and nnfolder+archives

gnus-summary-supersede-article and nnfolder+archives

[Jack Vinson]

Sgnus 0.52

I just tried to supersede a mail article because I screwed up the first time
I sent it.  Although the intention is for use in News posting, I wonder if
we should be able to "supersede" a mail article by simply sticking the
article in a mail buffer and let us edit at will. 

What happened was that I was dumped into a *Post News* buffer and when I
tried to send a message with no Newsgroup: line, I get and error, of
course.

[This is another reason why we want a uniform mail/news posting interface.]


In the same operation, I noticed that my nnfolder+archive'd article had
been saved before I ran my mail-send-hook, which is ispell-message.  As a
result, the outgoing message was saved with my spelling mistooks.  I
suppose this is a matter of deciding when the outgoing messages should be
archived.  (I have ispell-message in my news-inews-hook as well.)


-- 
Jack Vinson                                                  Sunderland, MA
jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu    <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson/home.html>

Re: gnus-summary-supersede-article and nnfolder+archives

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson) writes:

> I just tried to supersede a mail article because I screwed up the
> first time I sent it.  Although the intention is for use in News
> posting, I wonder if we should be able to "supersede" a mail article
> by simply sticking the article in a mail buffer and let us edit at
> will.

Well, you can't supersede mail, so it would be wrong for Gnus to
pretend that you can. 

> In the same operation, I noticed that my nnfolder+archive'd article had
> been saved before I ran my mail-send-hook, which is ispell-message.  As a
> result, the outgoing message was saved with my spelling mistooks.  I
> suppose this is a matter of deciding when the outgoing messages should be
> archived.  (I have ispell-message in my news-inews-hook as well.)

I think the message should be archived before it is posted, so perhaps
you can do ispelling in `'gnus-inews-article-hook' instead?  (That
hook is run before archiving.)

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Re: gnus-summary-supersede-article and nnfolder+archives

[Per Abrahamsen]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

LMI> Well, you can't supersede mail, so it would be wrong for Gnus to
LMI> pretend that you can. 

True, but try to read:

	<URL:ftp://ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-03.txt>

Maybe something for Red Gnus?

Re: gnus-summary-supersede-article and nnfolder+archives

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

abraham@dina.kvl.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:

> LMI> Well, you can't supersede mail, so it would be wrong for Gnus to
> LMI> pretend that you can. 
> 
> True, but try to read:
> 
> 	<URL:ftp://ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-03.txt>
> 
> Maybe something for Red Gnus?

Yes, I think this sounds like a good idea.  But shouldn't Cancel be
supported as well?  :-)  "No, I didn't mail you that.  Uh-uh.  Nope.
Not me."  

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen