GNEWS with any Emacsen
Getting Connected
Replying and Yanking
GNEWS with any Emacsen
Getting Connected
Replying and Yanking
As mentioned elsewhere, some MUAs do not provide the necessary hooks to
connect with Supercite. Supercite version 3.1 provides an unsupported
mechanism, called overloading which redefines certain key
functions in the MUA, so that it will call the mail-citation-hook
variable instead of the MUA's default hard-coded citing routines. Since
most newer versions of the known MUAs support the
mail-citation-hook variable, it is recommended that you upgrade
if at all possible. But if you can't upgrade, at least you're not out
of luck! Once you set up overloading properly, you should follow the
directions for connecting Supercite to the Emacs 19 MUAs.
See Emacs 19 MUAs.
Users of Bob Weiner's Hyperbole package take note. Hyperbole provides
the necessary overloads (and a whole lot more!) and you can potentially
clobber it if you were to load Supercite's overloading after
Hyperbole's. For this reason, Supercite will not perform any
overloading if it finds the variable hyperb:version is
boundp (i.e. it exists because Hyperbole has been loaded into
your Emacs session). If this is the case, Supercite will display a
warning message in the minibuffer. You should consult the Hyperbole
manual for further details.
Overloading involves the re-definition of the citing function with the
new, mail-citation-hook savvy version. The function in
`sc-oloads.el' that does this is sc-perform-overloads. This
function is smart enough to only overload the MUA functions when it is
absolutely necessary, based on the version numbers it can figure out.
Also, sc-perform-overloads will only install the new functions
once. It is also smart enough to do nothing if the MUA is not yet
loaded.
The tricky part is finding the right time and place to perform the overloading. It must be done after the MUA has been loaded into your Emacs session, but before the first time you try to yank in a message. Fortunately, this has been figured out for you.
If you must overload, you should put the following lisp code in your
`.emacs' file, to make sure the `sc-oloads.el' file gets
loaded at the right time:
(autoload 'sc-perform-overloads "sc-oloads" "Supercite 3.1" t)
Then you must make sure that the function sc-perform-overloads
gets run at the right time. For GNUS, put this in your `.emacs'
file:
(setq news-reply-mode-hook 'sc-perform-overloads) (setq mail-setup-hook 'sc-perform-overloads)
If you are using RNEWS, put this in your `.emacs' file:
(setq news-reply-mode-hook 'sc-perform-overloads)
If you are using RMAIL or PCMAIL, put this in your `.emacs' file:
(setq mail-setup-hook 'sc-perform-overloads)
If you are using GNEWS, put this in your `.emacs' file:
(setq news-reply-mode-hook 'sc-perform-overloads) (setq gnews-ready-hook 'sc-perform-overloads)
Now go back and follow the directions for getting the Emacs 19 MUAs
connected to Supercite. Be sure to see Emacs 18 MUAs on substitutes
for Emacs 19's add-hook function.
GNEWS with any Emacsen
Getting Connected
Replying and Yanking