gnus-label suggestion request

gnus-label suggestion request

[Chris Green]

Hey folks,

I've gotten far enough w/ gnus label that I think it's completely
feasible but I'm wondering how I should expose the user customizable
stuff and how I should integrate with gnus-summary-highlight.  It's
ugly (and also the most complicated elisp I've done) and I'm going to
spend a good bit of time cleaning up the failed experiments.


(defconst gnus-label-alist '((?i . '("Important" "darkred"))
			     (?w . '("Work" "darkblue"))
			     (?t . '("Todo" "darkgreen"))
			     (?l . '("Later" "brown4"))
			     (?f . '("Fun" "purple4")))
  "Alist of label names to key mappings")


I've created a new gnus-summary-highlight-line that includes
label-name and label-face as entries that can be used in
gnus-summary-highlight.  Would it be better to override
gnus-summary-highlight-line-function?  I couldn't find a good hook to
do that from and I didn't really know what gnus-tree was supposed to
be doing with that function.

Right now I have a list of labels with a color and the faces get
generated automatically.  Would people prefer to just give a face name
proper?  I was trying to make it so that I only had to configure
gnus-label in one spot so I could avoid having to defface each time I
added a new category.  I'm struggling with a good way to make marks &
labels cooperate.

Thanks,
Chris
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Re: gnus-label suggestion request

[Chris Green]

Of course I forgot to say where you could could see the code:

http://cmg.dok.org/code/gnus-label.el
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Re: gnus-label suggestion request

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On Tue, 04 May 2004 11:54:34 -0400, Chris Green <cmg@dok.org> said:

Chris> I've gotten far enough w/ gnus label that I think it's
Chris> completely feasible but I'm wondering how I should expose the
Chris> user customizable stuff and how I should integrate with
Chris> gnus-summary-highlight.  It's ugly (and also the most
Chris> complicated elisp I've done) and I'm going to spend a good bit
Chris> of time cleaning up the failed experiments.

IMHO, you could consider using my gnus-highlight mode instead (or an
extension to it).  It makes face customization trivial and
partial-line highlighting (IE, you could tell it to just highlight a
particular field which indicated the label in question).

( http://www.hardakers.net/elisp/ if you haven't seen it )

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Re: gnus-label suggestion request

[Chris Green]

Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

> IMHO, you could consider using my gnus-highlight mode instead (or an
> extension to it).  It makes face customization trivial and
> partial-line highlighting (IE, you could tell it to just highlight a
> particular field which indicated the label in question).

Hrm.   I do like the way you configure face colors..

What I need to be able to do is get the current article id from a
particular point in the summary buffer.  I could let the def in the
mapcar in highlight-line-by-expression also accept forms and do that
customization there. Are you thinking of something else?

Another thing I hadn't thought of yet was putting the label directly
in the summary line which should be pretty simple
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Re: gnus-label suggestion request

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 04 May 2004, cmg@dok.org wrote:

> Right now I have a list of labels with a color and the faces get
> generated automatically.  Would people prefer to just give a face
> name proper?

How about accepting both?  If stringp assume it's a color, otherwise...

Ted

Re: gnus-label suggestion request

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Chris Green <cmg@dok.org> writes:

> What I need to be able to do is get the current article id from a
> particular point in the summary buffer.

Well, `(gnus-summary-article-number)' will return the article number,
if that's what you mean, but I'm probably misunderstanding.  :-)

> Another thing I hadn't thought of yet was putting the label directly
> in the summary line which should be pretty simple

Or you could put some text properties on the line, if that helps.
(But it's kinda slow.)

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen