ffap-foo-at-bar-prefix of .emacs overridden

ffap-foo-at-bar-prefix of .emacs overridden

[Dan Jacobson]

>> I checked this out, and ffap seems to do fine for me both inside and
>> outside gnus.
>> 
>> Is there a chance that I need some special customization in order to
>> reproduce this bug?

OK, lets say it is irreproducible.
Let's just concentrate on why the user cannot do
(setq ffap-foo-at-bar-prefix "mailto") in .emacs or .gnus.el, and have
its value retained in a gnus *Article* buffer.

Examine its value in an *Article* buffer, and you'll see it has been overridden.

I saw some code in ffap.el that looked like it should use defvar
instead of setq.

Re: ffap-foo-at-bar-prefix of .emacs overridden

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Oct 15 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Let's just concentrate on why the user cannot do
> (setq ffap-foo-at-bar-prefix "mailto") in .emacs or .gnus.el, and have
> its value retained in a gnus *Article* buffer.
>
> Examine its value in an *Article* buffer, and you'll see it has been
> overridden.
>
> I saw some code in ffap.el that looked like it should use defvar
> instead of setq.

In `ffap-bindings' there's...

     (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'ffap-gnus-hook)
     (add-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook 'ffap-gnus-hook)

... and in `ffap-gnus-hook':

  (set (make-local-variable 'ffap-foo-at-bar-prefix) "news") ; message-id's

Does it help to remove the hook...

     (remove-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'ffap-gnus-hook)
     (remove-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook 'ffap-gnus-hook)

... _after_ calling `ffap-bindings'?

Bye, Reiner.
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