gnus format lines

gnus format lines

[Jack Vinson]

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.)

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gnus format lines

[Luis Fernandes]

There already is a function that does this, because in my ~/.gnus I
have:

	  ;; In the modeline for the summary buffer, just show the
	  ;; newgroup (shortened version) and the number of unread
	  ;; articles
      gnus-summary-mode-line-format "%g %Z -- "

The %g abbreviates the group-name...