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bug#29309: 25.2; Gnus: please make message-from-style 'angles the only o
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Robert Pluim |
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bug#29309: 25.2; Gnus: please make message-from-style 'angles the only option |
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Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:20:54 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> writes:
>>> Let us please make Gnus a better citizen by following the RFC’s
>>> recommendation and removing the legacy form.
>>
>> I see no reason to remove the legacy form, unless you want to go to
>> the trouble of writing code to nag people to change their setup. You
>> might have an argument for changing the default to be 'angles though.
>
> I don’t follow. Why would people need to change their setup? We could
> just discard the option altogether and always use 'angles, couldn’t
> we?
Ah, you want to remove the configuration variable entirely. I think
we'd have to obsolete it first, wait for a release cycle, and then
maybe remove it. Removing variables tends not to be fast for Emacs.
Robert