Hello Eric, Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Apparently it's not using the same parameter names as everyone else, > because nnmaildir lets the user put arbitrary Lisp expressions in as > values -- it runs the values through `eval' at Gnus startup time. I > think the idea is that, because the parameter values are handled > differently, the parameter names should be different. > > This doesn't particularly make sense, and the use of `eval' in regular > code is pretty heavily discouraged these days. This code seems to have > been in nnmaildir.el since The Dawn of Time, and I'm sure that at one > point someone depended heavily on being able to `eval' their parameter > values. Understood. Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > It would be relatively simple to fix: we could leave the existing > handling of nnmaildir's own parameters in place, but also start > retrieving the normal expiry parameters, using Gnus' regular > `gnus-group-parameter-*' functions. I'm glad to know that the implementation would be more or less simple. I'll check the `gnus-group-parameter-*' functions and try to play with `nnmaildir' with this idea in mind. Thanks! -- Regards, Fernando de Morais.
