* Re: [REQ] Feature Request : "fancy" gnus-posting-styles [not found] ` <m31y3gudaz.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> @ 2003-01-14 7:28 ` François-David Collin 2003-01-14 18:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: François-David Collin @ 2003-01-14 7:28 UTC (permalink / raw) >>>>> In article <m31y3gudaz.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>, >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes: Lars> I think it sounds like a good idea. It could definitely be Lars> useful. Well, after the countless posts in answer of mine, that's what we could deduce :-) So, let's go. I looked at the function gnus-configure-posting-styles, and I realize that I really don't want to touch it. To implement the thing, I'm thinking, in a first approach, of a wrapper wich converts the tree in a flat standard gnus-posting-styles, in short : for each leaf in the tree, reached by a in-depth walk, we provide a boolean expression to insert as a standard match the gnus-posting-styles, along with the posting attributes of the leaf. This sounds undoubtfully familiar to all the tree-algorithms-addicts we all are :-) They're two drawbacks : - the gnus-posting-style variable won't be human-readable, perhaps should be hidden - if the tree is complex, the leaf expressions could be very long, the gnus-configure will slowly parses a very very big structure. I don't think we will encounter such a situation, but who knows. If speed matters, providing a global function which stores a walk-state in the tree, and using this function in match-clause of gnus-posting-styles should do the trick. Comments? -- F.-D. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [REQ] Feature Request : "fancy" gnus-posting-styles 2003-01-14 7:28 ` [REQ] Feature Request : "fancy" gnus-posting-styles François-David Collin @ 2003-01-14 18:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2003-01-14 18:03 UTC (permalink / raw) Francois-David.Collin@wanadoo.fr (François-David Collin) writes: > I looked at the function gnus-configure-posting-styles, and I realize > that I really don't want to touch it. To implement the thing, I'm > thinking, in a first approach, of a wrapper wich converts the tree in > a flat standard gnus-posting-styles, [...] > They're two drawbacks : > > - the gnus-posting-style variable won't be human-readable, perhaps > should be hidden That could be dealt with by adding an additional variable that this complex spec would have control over, and letting `gnus-configure-posting-styles' use that as well. > - if the tree is complex, the leaf expressions could be very long, the > gnus-configure will slowly parses a very very big structure. I don't > think we will encounter such a situation, but who knows. If speed > matters, providing a global function which stores a walk-state in > the tree, and using this function in match-clause of > gnus-posting-styles should do the trick. I think that might be a problem. `gnus-configure-posting-styles' is a quite long function, but it isn't all that complex. I think you should be able to shoe-horn in a predicate-like spec in there without too much problem. A third method would be to use `gnus-make-predicate' to just make a function out of the predicates, but it might be difficult to make it fit in there... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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