gnus-buffer-configuration

gnus-buffer-configuration

[Karl Kleinpaste]

5.2.25 as supplied with xemacs 19.14.

There is a redundant usage of gnus-use-trees in
gnus-buffer-configuration, in the default `t' case.  There's already a
gnus-use-trees entry under the cond; it's pointless under the `t'.

Much more generally...I am catching up -- 'waaaay up -- from
5.0.something to 5.2.25 now, and I'm finding gnus-buffer-configuration
completely incomprehensible.  Of importance to me, I used to work with
a configuration like this, using a really wide (168-column) emacs:

---------------------
|  Group  |         |   This used to be accomplished with          
|---------|         |	           (gnus-add-configuration         
|         | Article |	            '(article ((group 0.25)        
| Summary |         |	                       (summary 1.0 point))
|         |         |	                      ((horizontal 0.5)    
|         |         |	                       (article 1.0))))    
---------------------

I have a number of (horizontal 0.5) entries, and depend on it pretty
heavily (mail-forward and edit-group are very similar).  The *Info*
documentation on gnus-buffer-configuration is really out of date, in
that it doesn't reference (e.g.) "vertical" as a g-b-c element at all,
even though it's all over the default g-b-c setting in gnus.el.

Could someone provide a clue?  I feel like I'm missing something large
but obvious here.  There are no horizontal examples from which to work
anywhere at this point.

Re: gnus-buffer-configuration

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@lycos.com> writes:

> I have a number of (horizontal 0.5) entries, and depend on it pretty
> heavily (mail-forward and edit-group are very similar).  The *Info*
> documentation on gnus-buffer-configuration is really out of date, in
> that it doesn't reference (e.g.) "vertical" as a g-b-c element at all,
> even though it's all over the default g-b-c setting in gnus.el.

I think you must be reading an old version of the manual.  This is
from the new manual:

(gnus-add-configuration
 '(article (vertical 1.0
               (group 4)
               (summary .25 point)
               (article 1.0))))

Basically, to go from old to new, you just add "vertical 1.0"
everywhere.  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: gnus-buffer-configuration

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> I think you must be reading an old version of the manual.

Oh, blast.  Yes, my Info-directory-list did manage to hold one
directory with an ancient(!) manual.  Apologies for short-sightedness.

I'm now using...

	   (gnus-add-configuration
	    '(article
	      (horizontal 1.0
			  (vertical 0.5
				    (group 0.25)
				    (summary 1.0 point))
			  (vertical 1.0
				    (article 1.0)))))

...which does precisely what the old version did.