From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>
Cc: 36849@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36849: 26.2; Misleading info in Gnus info about nndiary
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 17:51:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8zm6fmd.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <805znk5czq.fsf@felesatra.moe> (Allen Li's message of "Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:04:57 -0700")
Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe> writes:
> The Gnus Info manual about nndiary says this:
>
> (info "(gnus)Sending or Not Sending")
>
> • However, since ‘nndiary’ also has a ‘request-post’ method, you can
> also use ‘C-u a’ instead of ‘C-u m’ on a diary group and the
> message won’t actually be sent; just stored locally in the group.
> This comes in very handy for private appointments.
>
> This is misleading because the "a" key for nndiary defaults to composing
> mail (I guess because nndiary is a mail backend). This results in a
> message that is sent, which would be undesirable for a new user who may
> accidently mail something private.
I've never used nndiary before, so I'm not sure I'm doing it right.
If I
`G m diary RET nndiary RET'
then I get an nndiary group, and as you say, `C-u a' opens a message
mode buffer, and if I put something in the To header, the message is
sent to that recipient. So the documentation here is wrong -- or
there's a bug, and `C-u a' is supposed to not send anything.
> Instead, one must use the "S i" key to force composing a news post in
> order to 'request-post' to the nndiary group.
Hm. The "S i" key? That's not bound in my Group buffer.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-14 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-30 5:04 bug#36849: 26.2; Misleading info in Gnus info about nndiary Allen Li
2019-08-02 17:38 ` Štěpán Němec
2019-08-02 21:50 ` Allen Li
2019-09-14 15:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-09-27 8:48 ` Allen Li
2019-09-27 14:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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