Re: [change the default registry names]

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>>> "Michael" == Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>
>    > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>    >> So everything looks ok now, but I think the registry should be fixed
>    >> also by Lars/or the GNU emacs maintainers.
>
>    > It is fixed AFAICT in master (at least it should be, and is for me).
>    > But you need to upgrade Emacs.  Note that the necessary changes were in
>    > eieio, so updating only some gnus libraries is not enough (dunno what
>    > exactly you tried, maybe elaborate).  `gnus-registry-fixit' should only
>    > be needed to be called once.
>
> Besides gnorb I also use the registry to add the labels Todo Important
> etc, however I find the original names to long, and the chars to short,
> so I have
> (defalias 'gnus-user-format-function-M
> 'gnus-registry-article-marks-to-names)
>
> And I tried
>
> (setq gnus-registry-marks nil)
>
> (defvar  gnus-registry-marks
>   '((Imp
>      :char ?i
>      :image "summary_important")
>     (Wrk
>      :char ?w
>      :image "summary_work")
>     (Pers
>      :char ?p
>      :image "summary_personal")
>     (To-Do
>      :char ?t
>      :image "summary_todo")
>     (Later
>      :char ?l
>      :image "summary_later"))
>
>   "List of registry marks and their options.
>
> `gnus-registry-mark-article' will offer symbols from this list
> for completion.
>
> Each entry must have a character to be useful for summary mode
> line display and for keyboard shortcuts.
>
> Each entry must have an image string to be useful for visual
> display.")
>
> But it does not work my setting is not taken. Did anybody try to
> configure the names for the gnus registry?

The manual mentions needing to restart Emacs (or at least Gnus), have
you tried that? And did you edit the value via the Customize interface?
That might be safer.