Adding parameters to user group line format functions?

Adding parameters to user group line format functions?

[Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson]

Hi all,

Is it hard to add a "list of useful things" to be passed to user format
functions for the group line?

In particular, I'd like to use my own group name `mangling' in
gnus-group-line-format with %uG but have no idea how my
gnus-user-format-function-G would get a hold of the current group,
server names and perhaps the backend method.

For a concrete example, I'd like to prefix news.eternal-september.org
groups with ES: and not news.eternal-september.org.  If the function
recieves the server (and group) name as a parameter I can simply use
assq for it.

The currenty documentation mentions the function will get a dummy
parameter, so adding a real information there should not affect
backwards compatibility, right?


Johann

Re: Adding parameters to user group line format functions?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson" <myrkraverk@gmx.com> writes:

> Is it hard to add a "list of useful things" to be passed to user format
> functions for the group line?

`gnus-group-line-format-alist' has the list of dynamically bound
variables that you can use.  These aren't guaranteed not to change, but
they usually don't.

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