From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mail mode vs message mode Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:27:55 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <87iqcyb3l9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259198897 8817 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2009 01:28:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 02:28:09 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 1NDT9V-000631-AZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:28:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDT9U-0006mm-OO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:28:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDT9O-0006ku-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDT9K-0006fL-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:28:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55821 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDT9J-0006fG-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:27:57 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:18488 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDT9J-0001M1-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:27:57 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Am8FAG5oDUtFpYc//2dsb2JhbACBTtQJhDIEihY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,289,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="50048724" Original-Received: from 69-165-135-63.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.165.135.63]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 25 Nov 2009 20:27:56 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1E17BB40E6; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:27:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87iqcyb3l9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:22 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:117797 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69225 Archived-At: >>>> 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. Why? Stefan