Re: spurious subject change (was: problem with gnus-summary-line-format.)

[Nuutti Kotivuori <nuutti.kotivuori@smarttrust.com>]

Kai Großjohann wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
>> Kai Großjohann wrote:
>>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
>>>> Atleast for me, threads do change subjects even when not at
>>>> root. I gather threads by references.
>>> 
>>> I have no idea what the current tree building code will do when
>>> that happens.  Hm.  Lessee...
>> 
>> It works perfectly for me atleast. I see the new subject whenever
>> it changes, but the thread trees are intact. And %B summary format
>> ofcourse works fine.
> 
> No, no.  That's not what I'm talking about.  You can set
> gnus-sum-thread-tree-root to nil, then it will insert the subject.
> This way, you can put %B _without_ %s into the summary line format,
> and you will see a tree with subject.

Ah yes, you already talking about the %B tree building code. I thought
you meant the normal tree building, which was silly of me.

> But when the subject changes, that feature won't do the right thing.
> To get the right effect there, one needs to look if the subject has
> changed, and optionally append the subject to every node if this has
> happened.

In my opinion, the decision between showing the subject or not showing
the subject is not limited to just changing subjects and root. I, for
example, am a bit annoyed by the fact that when I'm reading news
articles, if the thread is long, I don't see the current subject from
it - I have to look at modeline or article headers, and both are far
away. So I might want "%S" and not "%s", so to speak. Or maybe
something even more complex, like showing the subject every 5 headers.

-- Naked