From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reply-To -> CC?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:03:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im8u69uf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0tb6cio.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (Pankaj Jangid's message of "Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:23:03 +0530")
On 12/21/20 09:23 AM, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>>> It works for a group if the fist element is a regexp. Quoting from the
>>> doc:
>>>
>>> The first element in each style is called the ‘match’. If it’s a
>>> string, then Gnus will try to regexp match it against the group name.
>>> If it is the form ‘(header MATCH REGEXP)’, then Gnus will look in the
>>> original article for a header whose name is MATCH and compare that
>>> REGEXP. MATCH and REGEXP are strings. (The original article is the one
>>> you are replying or following up to. If you are not composing a reply
>>> or a followup, then there is nothing to match against.) If the ‘match’
>>> is a function symbol, that function will be called with no arguments.
>>> If it’s a variable symbol, then the variable will be referenced. If
>>> it’s a list, then that list will be ‘eval’ed. In any case, if this
>>> returns a non-‘nil’ value, then the style is said to “match”.
>>>
>>> See “If the ‘match’ is a function symbol”.
>>
>> Right, that's pretty much what I was saying.
>
> Probably, I have misunderstood this,
>
>>>> I don't think so: posting styles only work when replying to a message in
>>>> a particular group, or composing a new message "from" a group using "C-u
>>>> m" or "C-u a" while point is on that particular group.
>
> Do you mean that when we are in group buffer and press just the ‘m’ or
> ‘a’ then the posting styles won’t be consulted? Or that we are always in
> one or the other group context. On my installation, the default posting
> style ((".*") ...) is always taken into account.
My experience is that if you don't give a prefix argument to "m" or "a"
then your posting styles aren't taken into account. But it makes perfect
sense that ".*" would still take effect (it matches the empty string,
after all). I don't have a catch-all like that in my `gnus-posting-styles'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-21 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-20 2:36 Reply-To -> CC? Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-20 3:10 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-20 4:00 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-20 4:34 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-20 5:20 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-20 5:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-20 5:23 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-20 5:24 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-20 5:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-20 7:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-12-20 8:26 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-20 17:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-12-21 3:53 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-21 23:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-12-22 11:29 ` True
2020-12-22 17:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-12-20 4:49 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-20 5:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-23 3:47 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-23 6:26 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-23 6:28 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-22 12:48 ` Gregor Zattler
2020-12-23 5:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-23 5:54 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-23 6:30 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-23 7:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-23 8:13 ` Teemu Likonen
2020-12-23 10:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-23 11:11 ` Teemu Likonen
2020-12-23 11:49 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-23 12:14 ` Teemu Likonen
2020-12-23 12:32 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-24 4:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-23 10:18 ` Jean Louis
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