bug#81408: 31.0.90; gnus-icalendar-event--find-attendee no longer matches regexp quoted strings

Richard Lawrence <[email protected]> writes:

> Perhaps gnus-icalendar-identities is not the function we need.  It looks
> to me like wherever this function is actually used, its return value is
> always just searched to find the ATTENDEE corresponding to the user.
> Seems like it would be better to just fold the logic of checking the
> various IDs Gnus knows about directly into
> gnus-icalendar-event--find-attendee, instead of passing this mishmash
> down the call stack.  WDYT?

I am not an expert on the internals of Gnus, but I can imagine a
situation where someone is already managing identity switching by adding
advice on gnus-icalendar-identities to override/modify the return value,
so it seems safer to leave the origin of the values in-place.

-- 
Morgan Willcock