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bug#36849: 26.2; Misleading info in Gnus info about nndiary
From: |
Allen Li |
Subject: |
bug#36849: 26.2; Misleading info in Gnus info about nndiary |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 08:48:06 +0000 |
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 3:51 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe> writes:
>
> > The Gnus Info manual about nndiary says this:
> >
> > (info "(gnus)Sending or Not Sending")
> >
> > • However, since ‘nndiary’ also has a ‘request-post’ method, you can
> > also use ‘C-u a’ instead of ‘C-u m’ on a diary group and the
> > message won’t actually be sent; just stored locally in the group.
> > This comes in very handy for private appointments.
> >
> > This is misleading because the "a" key for nndiary defaults to composing
> > mail (I guess because nndiary is a mail backend). This results in a
> > message that is sent, which would be undesirable for a new user who may
> > accidently mail something private.
>
> I've never used nndiary before, so I'm not sure I'm doing it right.
>
> If I
>
> `G m diary RET nndiary RET'
>
> then I get an nndiary group, and as you say, `C-u a' opens a message
> mode buffer, and if I put something in the To header, the message is
> sent to that recipient. So the documentation here is wrong -- or
> there's a bug, and `C-u a' is supposed to not send anything.
Yeah. Fixing the documentation is the most expedient. I can't say
whether the current `C-u a' behavior is a bug per se.
>
> > Instead, one must use the "S i" key to force composing a news post in
> > order to 'request-post' to the nndiary group.
>
> Hm. The "S i" key? That's not bound in my Group buffer.
Right, that's only bound in the Summary buffer. I don't think there's
a way to force posting instead of mailing from the Group buffer.
>
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