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- From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
- Subject: Help required with SuperCite 2.0
- Message-ID: <KEVIN.92Aug25171305@buffalobill.edscom.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
- Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:13:05 GMT
- Lines: 101
-
-
- First of all, I know that SuperCite is now at version 2.1, but when my
- sysop tried to download it from Imperial College yesterday he could only
- find version 2.0. (If anyone from IC is out there, where is 2.1?)
-
- Okay, on to the problems...
-
- 1) Electric references don't pop up when expected
- =================================================
-
- I've got `sc-electric-references-p' set to `t' and `mail-yank-hooks' to
- `sc-cite-original', but the only time I get queried about which header I
- want is when I do C-u C-c C-r (`sc-insert-reference' with a prefix arg).
-
- `sc-describe' leads me to think that I should get queried *whenever* a
- header is requested if `sc-electric-references-p' is `t'. In
- particular, whenever `mail-yank-original' is called (which happens
- pretty much every time a message or article is yanked).
-
- Is the documentation wrong, have I not understood it, or what?
-
-
- 2) Two headers (references) when posting follow-up articles
- ===========================================================
-
- When I post a follow-up article from GNUS (3.14.1), either using `F'
- (gnus-Subject-post-reply-with-original) in the *Subject* buffer, or 'f'
- (gnus-Subject-post-reply) in the *Subject* buffer followed by C-c C-y
- (news-reply-yank-original) in the *post-news* buffer, I get 2 header
- lines - the one defined by `news-reply-header-hook' followed by the one
- defined by `sc-preferred-header-style'.
-
- The way I've got round this is by putting the following in my .emacs:-
-
- ;; For news reply headers, use `sc-header-attributed-writes'.
- ;; Need to turn off `news-reply-header-hook' or we will get the
- ;; original "In article <blah> <so-and-so> said:" line too.
- (setq news-reply-header-hook nil)
- (setq news-reply-mode-hook
- (function (lambda ()
- (make-local-variable 'sc-preferred-header-style)
- (setq sc-preferred-header-style 5))))
-
- although the following has the same effect:-
-
- (setq news-reply-header-hook 'sc-header-attributed-writes)
- (setq news-reply-mode-hook
- (function (lambda ()
- (make-local-variable 'sc-preferred-header-style)
- (setq sc-preferred-header-style 0))))
-
- I expect that this is something I'll have to live with, because after a
- lengthy grot through the code (thank god for etags!) I discovered that
- `news-reply-yank-original' calls `mail-yank-original' to do its dirty
- work, which calls `sc-cite-original', which calls `sc-cite', which calls
- `sc-insert-reference' to insert `sc-preferred-header-style'!
-
- Are things any better in 2.1? Is there a better way for me to get only
- one header? My main complaint is that there was nothing in the README
- file about this. I can't be the first person to have come across it
- (can I?).
-
-
- 3) Can I get different headers for mail replies to mail and news?
- ================================================================
-
- I'd like to be able to *automatically* get different headers for replies
- to mail and news. I tried to be clever by getting
- `gnus-Article-prepare-hook' to define `mail-setup-hook' as a local
- variable which set `sc-preferred-header-style' to the value I wanted.
- Trouble is, when `mail' is called to do the reply, it calls `mail-mode'
- to set up the buffer, and the first think it does is call
- `kill-all-local-variables', so I lose my local `mail-setup-hook' before
- it's had a chance to be run!
-
- Anyone got any ideas?
-
-
- 4) "supercite" mail address didn't work
- =======================================
-
- I tried mailing to "supercite@cme.nist.gov" but the Mail Daemon
- <mmdf@gate.demon.co.uk> returned the message with:-
-
- Your message could not be delivered to
- 'supercite@cme.nist.gov (host: cme.nist.gov) (queue: smtpns)' for the following
- reason: ' <supercite@cme.nist.gov>... User unknown'
-
- Any ideas? I'm still a bit green about net addresses, so could it be
- that there is a subtle difference between Internet and ARPAnet?
-
-
- Thanks in advance for any help received.
-
- Please e-mail responses - I'll post a summary (with appropriate
- citation!) in a week or so.
- --
- Kevin Broadey <kbroadey@edscom.demon.co.uk>
- EDS-Scicon, Wavendon Tower, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LX, England.
- Phone: +44 908 284198 (direct) or +44 908 585858 ext 4198
- These opinions are mine: others available on request.
-