Joe Fineman <[email protected]> writes: > Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes: > >> Joe Fineman <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> Why would you do all this when gnus has signatures built in which >>>> use things like regexps for signature matching? >>> >>> Because, as I explained at the beginning, >>> >>>>> Being isolated from the Gnuish mainstream, I routinely reinvent >>>>> the wheel when such desires arise. >> >> Google gnus and signature file - it's not so far out :-; > > I think I could wander around in those results quite a while before I > found anything both intelligible and useful.
If that's what find, then who am I to argue. Personally, though I tend to find with gnu/open source that there are always hosts of people there to help and so I find recommending home brew over established, documented and supported methods somewhat odd. Also in the context of the user asking for "easy" solutions, I cant help but think the built in Gnus way is easier than a one off hack which is dedicated to a single person. Clearly you disagree and your view is as valid. > >>>> And how would Merciadri invoke it? >>> >>> By keying "M-x psig RET" (after creating a congenial Sayings file, >>> of course). >> >> You don't auto call it when you send your message? > > No. > >> Better I guess if you only attach a .sig rarely. > > On the contrary, I always attach one. But I have two styles: psig > (the one I posted) for personal communications, which calls me Joe and > includes my email address & a rotating saying, and bsig for business, > which calls me Joseph C. and includes my full address & phone number, > but no saying. Ah yes, I use posting styles for this. And it adds the correct sig/from/organisation depending which group I send from. Useful and well supported. And as easy to set up for X groups as for 2 groups. No interactive function to remember either. I must admit in the early days I had problems understanding matching and gnus-posting-styles but got there in the end. > >>>> Far easier to use a file based signature(s) and have gnus include >>>> them. >>> >>> I suspect it would take me longer to find out what "file based >>> signature(s)" means than to write the routine I provided, which >>> worked the first time and has served me well for many years. > > Also, as I might have mentioned, the time it takes to key "M-x psig > RET" is very much smaller than the time it takes to compose a > posting. It is scarcely worth saving. I prefer not to do any M-x to be honest. I tend to find it faster and less error prone when the computer does it for me - they tend to be good at automatic repeated tasks :-; > >> Well, yes, if you have one single never changing signature > > On the contrary, the psig one changes every time. Do the built-in > facilities provide for that feature? And if so, how would I have > found that out? Someone else posted a link to a modular signature "changer" which integrates with gnus. I had my own cron job which altered sig files too. Its quite common. Anyway, I'm sure your way will prove educational too. cheers, r. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
