From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: gnus-summary-line-format rather daunting to the average user
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:19:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3h4wkmn.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
Gentlemen,
gnus-summary-line-format is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
Its value is
"%U%R%z%I%(%t %3{%~(cut-left 2)~(max-right 6)~(pad 6)o%}%3L|%us|%-14,14f%)%3{%un%}:%s\n"
Original value was <---**** P.S., extra blank here ****
"%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"
...The %U (status), %R (replied) and %z (zcore) specs have to be handled
with care. For reasons of efficiency, Gnus will compute what column
these characters will end up in, and "hard-code" that. This means that
it is invalid to have these specs after a variable-length spec. Well,
you might not be arrested, but your summary buffer will look strange,
which is bad enough.
Forget it. I give up trying to understand all this.
All I know is with what I have now, things aren't lining up.
1 110707 19|2.1|Zoe :Signup Complete
1 110714 6|4.4|<complaints@cb:Your complaint has been received
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OK, we are about to set off on a trip ti make the 2.1, 4.4 field above
have a minimal width.
I decided to take the reader along so he sees how painful it is.
Firstly all those arcane one letter codes. They should be full names.
OK, it seems I want to adjust the %us string.
(setq gnus-summary-line-format
"%U%R%z%I%(%t %3{%~(cut-left 2)~(max-right 6)~(pad 6)o%}%3L|%6us|%-14,14f%)%3{%un%}:%s\n")
OK, that wasn't that tough. OK, See ya. Bye.
next reply other threads:[~2011-07-21 0:19 UTC|newest]
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2011-07-21 0:19 jidanni [this message]
2011-08-21 3:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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