On Thu, Feb 15 2024, Simon Tournier wrote: > Hi Clément, > > On jeu., 15 févr. 2024 at 12:45, Clément Lassieur <clem...@lassieur.org> > wrote: > >>>> 'b4 shazam' is probably the most trouble-free way to apply patches; >>> >>> I agree*! >> >> I don't agree (both Gwene + Gnus or Emacs Debbugs work perfectly too and >> allow to apply a range of n patches at once) but I don't think there is >> a need for competition here, it's good that we have several tools. > > Yes for sure it is good to have several tools. And the ones you like. :-) > > No one is advocating to make ’b4 shazam’ THE only one tool. > > Instead, I agree with Maxim that exposing Message-ID and relying on ’b4 > shazam’ is the most trouble-free and config-less way to apply patches.
I know ;) >>> What appears to me “difficult” is that most of the >>> tools as Email client are poorly supporting Message-ID. >>> >>> For instance, debbugs.el (Gnus). To my knowledge, there is not easy way >>> to get the Message-ID when reading an article (bug/patch) from Debbugs. >>> There is other means for applying patches. But still each time appears >>> to me weird. :-) >> >> It's >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> (with-current-buffer gnus-original-article-buffer >> (message-fetch-field "Message-ID")) >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > [...] > >> May I add too, that you can add "Message-ID" in gnus-visible-headers. > > And what about Summary buffer? You add '%M' in gnus-summary-line-format. > Well, it makes my point, no? :-) No, it doesn't :-) > For sure the Message-ID is there and for sure it is possible to extract > it. However, it appears to me weird that it is not built-in. I mean > Message-ID is one of the heart of Emails, and Debbugs is just Emails, > but debbugs.el does not provide a built-in access to it. Yes it does provide a built-in access, as I showed you. Just search for "Message-id" in `C-h v gnus-summary-line-format`. Cheers, Clément
