Re: drafts

[Clinton Roy <latte@uq.net.au>]

hello peoples :)

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:
> Well, you also need to tweak your gnus-summary-line-format.  That's
> why I included the reference to the manual -- you need %f instead of
> %n in the format string in order to show To.  And don't forget to set
> gnus-ignored-from-addresses while you're at it.
> 
> It works.  Honest.

Wow. It's amazing how deep your todo stack can get. Anyway, got around
to setting this up today. Indeed, it does work :)

And like all good answers should, the solution has raised more
questions:

1) What's the deal with getting the extra header information? Does
   everything get slowed down now that Gnus is parsing an extra header
   for me, even though I only want it to for one group?

2) Getting that header information into the summary line is a
   pain. Why isn't there a format spec for the To header? Why the
   complex two-in-one spec and another regexp?

3) I did at one stage have the new summary line format string without
   %U in it. Deleting a draft message didn't make the normal
   %highlighting happen. This effect of this spec is documented
   somewhere, right?

4) My format spec has to cut off the first two characters of the
   From/To header, as it's ``->''. What's this from?

My suggestions would be to do either:
1) Have the drafts group do some magic and set this up as default.
2) Have a paragraph in the manual describing how to do it.

Thank you so much for working on Gnus, it's the most feature complete
news and mail reader that we could hope for.

bye.
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