Re: [RFC] Gnus generalized search, part II

[Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu>]

>>>>> "Harry" == Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

    Harry> Sorry to bog things down to something probably trivial.  But
    Harry> could one of you spell out a bit more what this `spec' is?

    Harry> My summary line format is a long string of char that I pieced
    Harry> together about a hundred yrs ago, haven't thought much about
    Harry> since, and are now mainly mystifying.

    Harry> Is it upper or lower case `g' as would seem to be what Andrew
    Harry> C suggests or something more?

    Harry> (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%O%2t%U%R%7d%z%I%(%[%4L:
    Harry> %-20,20f%]%) %s\n")


The summary-line format is documented in the gnus manual in the section
Gnus->Summary Buffer->Summary Buffer Format->Summary Buffer Lines

There you can find the syntax of this thing and what all the different
possibilities are (except for the new nnselect part of the spec which
hasn't yet entered this part of the documentation:))

The only nnselect specific items are the specs for showing the "real"
information about an article in an nnselect buffer. They are

          %Z    Search retrieval score value (integer)
          %G    Article original full group name (string)
          %g    Article original short group name (string)

If you are using the new nnselect stuff from git, then you can just use
these in your spec and they will be blank in ordinary summary buffers,
and show the right thing in nnselect buffers.

So indeed %g is the right spec to get the originating group name (or %G
if you want the longer name).

And although I doubt it will be that helpful, here is the crazy one I
use (I have a strangely formatted summary buffer :))

(setq gnus-summary-line-format (concat 
				"%15{%U%R%}" 
				"%15{│ %}" 
				"%12{%-16&user-date;%}"
				"%15{ │%}"
				"%12{ %}%(%-18,18f%)"
				"%12{ %}%*%7{%B%}%«%14{%~(ignore 0)Z %}%11{%s%} %14{%g%}%»\n"))