Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!talos!kjones From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Re: GNUS vs Gnews Message-ID: <1989Oct4.131413.4096@talos.uucp> Date: 4 Oct 89 13:14:13 GMT References: <4057@unix.SRI.COM> <4129@unix.SRI.COM> Reply-To: kjones@talos.uu.net Lines: 17 Francois Felix INGRAND wants to: > - setup my own format line in index mode depending of the newsgroup, > - be in index-mode automatically for some newsgroups not others, > - index only if there are more than *variable* article, > - have some index sorted on subject or date or not at all, > - switch in digest mode automatically (by newsgroup or article), flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: > All this is doable with GNUS hooks, if you're willing to write a > little elisp code. This may be more trouble than you wish to take. > GNUS could use more examples of interesting hooks.. Different philosophies, I guess. I personally do not want to program a newsreader. I'd much rather see carefully thought out general purpose features, controllable by variable settings than lots of hooks. Variables have the advantage that the user can modify them with `M-x edit-options', without knowing much about Lisp syntax.