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From: Sebastian Tennant <sdt <at> sebyte.me>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys)
Subject: Documentation bugs
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:48:12 +0000

From the Info manual:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
5.5 Archived Messages
=====================

Gnus provides a few different methods for storing the mail and news you
send.  The default method is to use the "archive virtual server" to
store the messages.  If you want to disable this completely, the
`gnus-message-archive-group' variable should be `nil', which is the
default.
[...]
`nil'
     No message archiving will take place.  This is the default.
[...]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

(describe-variable 'gnus-message-archive-group) =>

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
gnus-message-archive-group is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
Its value is ((format-time-string "sent.%Y-%m"))
[...]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

DOC BUG #1: `nil' is not the default setting of gnus-message-archive-group
            anymore. `((format-time-string "sent.%Y-%m"))' seems to be the
            new default.

DOC BUG #2: The types of values of gnus-message-archive-group are listed
            as: a string, a list of strings, an alist of
            regexps/functions/forms, and nil.  The new default value is
            a list of functions that evaluate to strings so presumably
            this type should also be added to the list.

Hope this helps.
--
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GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2014-12-09 on gaia, modified by Debian

Message #8 received at 20019 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sebastian Tennant <sdt <at> sebyte.me>
Cc: 20019 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20019: Documentation bugs
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:36:59 +0100

Sorry for the late response; the bug report has been sitting in a part
of the bug tracker that nobody has looked at due to a misunderstanding.

Sebastian Tennant <sdt <at> sebyte.me> writes:

> Gnus provides a few different methods for storing the mail and news you
> send.  The default method is to use the "archive virtual server" to
> store the messages.  If you want to disable this completely, the
> `gnus-message-archive-group' variable should be `nil', which is the
> default.
> [...]
> `nil'
>      No message archiving will take place.  This is the default.
> [...]
>
> (describe-variable 'gnus-message-archive-group) =>
>
> gnus-message-archive-group is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
> Its value is ((format-time-string "sent.%Y-%m"))
> [...]
>
> DOC BUG #1: `nil' is not the default setting of gnus-message-archive-group
>             anymore. `((format-time-string "sent.%Y-%m"))' seems to be the
>             new default.

This seems to be fixed on the Emacs trunk now, at least.

> DOC BUG #2: The types of values of gnus-message-archive-group are listed
>             as: a string, a list of strings, an alist of
>             regexps/functions/forms, and nil.  The new default value is
>             a list of functions that evaluate to strings so presumably
>             this type should also be added to the list.

The doc string now says:

---
Name of the group in which to save the messages youve written.
This can either be a string; a list of strings; or an alist
of regexps/functions/forms to be evaluated to return a string (or a list
of strings).  The functions are called with the name of the current
group (or nil) as a parameter.
---

So apparently this has also been fixed in the meantime...

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