From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4298 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: gnus format lines Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 10:04:59 -0500 Message-ID: <9512061504.AA21037@cheux.ecs.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145063 29103 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:17:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:17:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA21631 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 08:46:40 -0800 Original-Received: from cheux.ecs.umass.edu (cheux.ecs.umass.edu [128.119.82.11]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:10:15 +0100 Original-Received: by cheux.ecs.umass.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA21037; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 10:04:59 -0500 Original-To: "(ding) Gnus mailing list" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4298 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4298 Is there a way to force gnus summary line formatting to clip names beyond a certain length? I suppose I could write my own format function which does this, but it would be nice if there was something already built in that took care of things. A long while back we talked about abbreviating newsgroup names in order to shorten the length of the name displayed in the Group buffer. The goal would be to change comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc to c.o.m.programmer.tools.mfc or something. As far as I remember nothing was ever written to do this, but I assume one would just write a user-defined format function to do this? (I'm thinking, but I'd like to know if we've already got something like this available.) -- ( "Mmmmmm - coffee" ( )) Jack Vinson )) C|~~| jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu C|~~| `--' `--'