From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mail mode vs message mode Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:22 -0500 Message-ID: <87iqcyb3l9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87639beb4n.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <876399p00j.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87iqd8rh73.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87r5rvvknw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lji3od0l.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87vdh6focv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87pr7aftaj.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <871vjmcmgh.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259190823 21939 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2009 23:13:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 00:13:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDR3I-0001qu-Be for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:13:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDR3H-00067x-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDR3A-00063r-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDR35-0005z8-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49216 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDR35-0005yw-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:23 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.101]:52110) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDR35-0004lF-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:23 -0500 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014119.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.119]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id nAPNDMXG018912 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:22 -0500 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4FAACC071; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:02:58 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117786 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69224 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> They may not be serious, but as for `message-yank-prefix', it may >>> not be easy to users to find the way to make Gnus work as before >>> (the new behavior is that cited lines are prefixed only with three >>> space characters). > >> This is not acceptable IMHO. We need to find a solution for this. >> I don't have a good idea, though. > > It should be pretty easy to do something like > > (defcustom message-foo > (let ((def mail-foo)) > (if (acceptable def) def fallback)) > ...) That kind of defeats the purpose.