gnus-summary-line-format / bbdb integration

[Adam Duck <duck@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>]

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Hi list,

I've been using gnus for quite some time now and started playing
around with it.  I must say that it's one of the - if not the - best
programs I've ever used.  But I have two questions I haven't seen
answered anywhere:

1.) I have the following `gnus-summary-line-format':

Value: "%U%R%z %*%B%-50,50s｜%d｜%4L(%5k)｜%(%[ %-23,23f%]%)\\n"

Well, it doesn't work correctly because I'd like to have "%-50,50(Bs)"
or something.  Meaning: I want to pad and max both, B and s, to 50
chars.  I can't believe that gnus doesn't have such a grouping
operator in format-strings but does have some other very obscure
things... :)

2.) I have the following code in .gnus:

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But I'd like to have "*BBDB*" pop up only if bbdb actually has some
data on the person in the headers.  So, which function do I test?  I
tried `bbdb/gnus-update-records' like this:

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but all it says then is

Invalid function: *BBDB*

so, what do I do wrong here?  Oh, I just found out it also does this
for "(if t ...) which is bad... So, what do I do wrong here?

bye, Adam.