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From: Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org>
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Subject: Re: How to change message-citation-line-function
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:47:36 +0000
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Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org> writes:

> William Daffer <whdaffer@wabcmail.com> writes:
>
>>   I want to use a specific citation in a certain group. I tried to
>>   change message-citation-line-function to a function of my own
>>   creation by doing
>>
>>     (add-to-list 'gnus-newsgroup-variables 'message-citation-line-function)
>>
>>   in my .gnus and 
>>
>>     (message-citation-line-function 'my-citation-line-function)
>>
>>   in the group parameters for the group in question.
>
> Don't group parameters come in dotted pairs ? eg
>
> something like
>
> (message-citation-line-function . (my-citation-line-function))

Tchah,  allow me to jump on my own head this once - from the Gnus manual


,----
| We see that each element consists of a "dotted pair"---the thing before
| the dot is the key, while the thing after the dot is the value. All the
| parameters have this form except local variable specs, which are not
| dotted pairs, but proper lists.
| 
`----

Sorry !




Glyn