* bug#26105: Group parameters can't set non-list values
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@ 2018-04-12 19:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2018-04-12 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tim Landscheidt; +Cc: 26105
Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> writes:
> | 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.
>
> IMHO this behaviour is surprising and makes customizing non-
> list variables for groups unnecessarily complicated; it
> should be changed so that all values can be set.
>
> If Gnus differentiates between two types of parameters as
> the info suggests, IMHO this would be better done by compar-
> ing (car elem) to a white-list of parameters to be treated
> differently.
Yeah, but changing this would break the parameters that people may be
using. If we remove the distinction between parameters and local
variables, then things will break for users.
I agree that the current state isn't optimal, but I don't see any way to
fix this in an intuitive and backwards-compatible way.
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