Subject: bug#11601: gnus-tmp-group undocumented

From: Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:56:32 -0400

on Mon Jun 11 2012, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> I presume all of the gnus-tmp- stuff should be documented, or this one
>> should be changed to use some other mechanism.
>
> I've now added the following to that section in the manual:
>
> ---
> To see what variables are dynamically bound (like
> @code{gnus-tmp-group}), you have to look at the source code.  The
> variable names aren't guaranteed to be stable over Gnus versions,
> either.

You're actually recommending a customization in the manual that relies
on implementation details?  In fact... is there any way to write a
useful gnus-user-format-function-* that doesn't rely on implementation
details?  This just doesn't seem right.

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Dave Abrahams
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