;; 00debian-vars.el
;;
;; Initialize some emacs variables from debian policy files.
;;
;; Copyright (C) 1997, Frederic Lepied <Frederic.Lepied@sugix.frmug.org>
;;
;; original Author: Frederic Lepied <Frederic.Lepied@sugix.frmug.org>
;; enhanced and documented by: Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
;;=============================================================================
;; Autoloaded section.
;;=============================================================================
;;;###
(eval-when-compile
;; Quiet byte compiler
(defvar gnus-nntpserver-file))
;;;***
;;=============================================================================
;; Configuration section.
;;=============================================================================
(defun debian-file->string (name &optional func)
"Convert a file into a string"
(interactive "fFile name : ")
(let ((filename (expand-file-name name)))
(if (not (file-readable-p filename))
nil
(with-temp-buffer
;; Do not run any user `find-file-hooks'
(insert-file-contents-literally filename)
(if func
(funcall func))
(buffer-string)))))
(defun debian-clean-mailname ()
(while (search-forward "\n" nil t)
(replace-match "" nil t)))
;; Particular variables, and their justification:
;; policy/ch4.html, 4.3 Mail processing on Debian systems, /etc/mailname
;; policy/ch-binarypkg.html, 3.5 Maintainer scripts, /etc/news/server
(let ((mailname
(debian-file->string "/etc/mailname" (function debian-clean-mailname))))
(if mailname
(setq mail-host-address mailname)))
;; Don't need to check NNTPSERVER for override, gnus does that for us.
(if (file-readable-p "/etc/news/server")
(setq gnus-nntpserver-file "/etc/news/server"))
;;; 00debian-vars.el ends here