From: Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: Making group parameters visible to the article buffer too
Date: 12 Oct 1998 08:29:55 -700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7ogrh7q8c.fsf@des.castles.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "12 Oct 1998 00:43:28 +0200"
>>>>> On 12 Oct 1998 00:43:28 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
Lars> Well, I do copy some local variables over into global variables
Lars> (whenever you do a command in the summary buffer, basically),
Lars> but we're talking 4-5 variables, not a wholesale clone of the
Lars> local vars.
Lars, the issue is much larger than that though...
1) the group parameters should only set a few? variables in the
article buffer? IE, shouldn't the number of new variables in the
article buffer be an exact match of those in the group params?
2) This would fix a lot of other problems with articles in general
which are merely "annoying". For instance, I've always wanted
gnus-break-pages to be set inside of alt.fan.warlord, but in
nowhere else. (I made this request back in the red-gnus time frame,
but was shot down, flamed, destroyed, denied, ... ehh hem...)
Anyway, this is a feature quite a few people have asked about for some
time...
Plus, wouldn't this help things like signature choosing? IE,
message-signature-file could be set in the group parameters? (right
now, I have to set message-signature to my own function which does a
regex match on the group name to determine what I want? Ick).
In short, group parameters could be *so* much more powerful if allowed
to affect articles and replies? read/composed underneath it?
--
"Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-12 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-11 17:22 Matt Simmons
1998-10-11 17:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-11 19:57 ` Matt Simmons
1998-10-11 21:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-11 22:20 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-10-11 22:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-12 11:33 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-10-13 4:53 ` Matt Simmons
1998-10-17 19:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-12 15:29 ` Wes Hardaker [this message]
1998-10-12 16:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-12 22:57 ` Wes Hardaker
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