Ian> Can we just agree that this interface needs improvement? ;-) Adam> I think it already has been improved, in GNU Emacs 24.1 (at Adam> least):
I don't know, that looks like the variable was just renamed. That is progress, but the main problems remain: 1. The Gnus documentation about following up makes absolutely no mention of these variables. I could read the documentation till blue in the face but I would never find out what was happening until I traced it with the debugger. 2. It is IMHO an abuse of Custom to set a customizable variable at runtime. Again, without tracing the execution I would never understand why the variable, which was nil when I'd visited it in customize, suddenly acquired a value. 3. The default value itself is strange. If info- is included, why not -announce, or the many other variations on that theme? -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
