Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes: > Joe Fineman <[email protected]> writes:
>> 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. Yes, it is somewhat odd. I have a mysterious intellectual deficiency that a friend of mine has called "mind blindness". Time and time again, I have posted a query on a Gnu-related newsgroup, taking care to phrase the questions so as to reveal the precise extent of my ignorance. Invariably, I receive one or more prompt, cheerful replies, containing something I don't understand. My followup questions usually discourage further attempts to help me or to be helped. > 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. That depends. It may be hard to find out what the Gnus way is, and it is easy to copy somebody else's code if it happens to do exactly what you want it to do. I have done that often. > Ah yes, I use posting styles -- whatever they are -- > for this. And it adds the correct sig/from/organisation depending > which group -- whatever that is -- > 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 have never once forgotten "psig" & "bsig". > I must admit in the early days I had problems understanding matching > and gnus-posting-styles but got there in the end. Probably after a lot more time & effort than I spent on those two elementary defuns. And no doubt that was a wise investment on your part, because you are a real programmer & have a much more complicated online life than I do. However (or so I have read), Emacs is not just for programmers. -- --- Joe Fineman [email protected] ||: Don't worry. It won't last. Nothing does. :|| _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
