gnus-buffer-configuration and wide screens

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Hello,

I have recently moved to using a wide screen on my main
computer.  Unfortunately, it's not one that can swivel (I prefer a
portrait orientation to my monitors) so I am having to adapt to it.

Gnus provides the really useful gnus-buffer-configuration for arranging
the various buffers.  I have set mine up as follows:

(setq gnus-buffer-configuration
   '((group (horizontal 1.0 (group 1.0 point)))
     (summary (horizontal 1.0 (summary 0.6 point) (group 1.0)))
     (article (horizontal 1.0 (article 0.6) (summary 1.0 point)))
     (forward (horizontal 1.0 (message 0.6 point) (article 1.0)))
     (message (horizontal 1.0 (message 0.6 point) (article 1.0)))
     (reply (horizontal 1.0 (message 0.6 point) (article 1.0)))
     (reply-yank (horizontal 1.0 (message 0.6 point) (article 1.0)))))

This works quite nicely.  The buffer of interest is always the one to
the left of the screen where my eyes tend to focus first.

I have two questions:

1. The settings are quite symmetric except for one: the article is shown
   to the left but the point is on the summary window.  In all other
   cases, point is on the left buffer.  If, however, I try to have point
   be in the article buffer,

   (article (horizontal 1.0 (article 0.6 point) (summary 1.0)))

   I get an error:

   ,----
   | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range 0)
   |   get-char-property(0 invisible)
   |   gnus-summary-show-thread()
   |   gnus-summary-scroll-up(1)
   |   call-interactively(gnus-summary-scroll-up nil nil)
   `----

2. I have tried adding the "server" buffer to the group display, again
   for symmetry, but this doesn't seem to work.  The server buffer
   becomes inactive.  I haven't explored this one fully so I may have
   done something wrong.  However, if anybody has the server buffer
   shown simultaneously with the group buffer, can you please send me
   your buffer configuration settings?  Anyway, this one is much less
   important than point 1 above!

All of this is with gnus from git up to date a few minutes ago.

thanks,
eric

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.1.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.6