Re: Idea: Examples for making the summary buffer look like other newsreaders

[Jens Bethkowsky <jb.dev.null@gmx.de>]

On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> A user on gnu.emacs.gnus asked how to make the Gnus summary buffer
> look like xnews, and Jesper Harder came up with a solution.
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice to have a section in the manual listing various
> settings to have the Gnus summary buffer ape other newsreaders?
> 
> Post the examples to this thread, and I'll collect them and put them
> in the manual.  Include sample output from the settings.

At the moment I have a somewhat slrn-influenced summary-buffer:

,----[ .gnus ]
| ;:* Summary-Buffer
| (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%R%U%z:%4L [%-16,16n] %I%s\n"
| 	gnus-thread-indent-level 2
| 	gnus-summary-same-subject "`->")
`----

It looks like this:

,----[ *Summary de.comm.software.gnus* ]
| AO+:  40 [Raffael Herzog  ] Re: [gnus] quoted-printable
|  O+:  29 [Jo Moskalewski  ]   `->
|  O+:  26 [Torsten Hilbrich]     `->
|  O+:  54 [Raffael Herzog  ]       `->
|  O+:  16 [Raymond Scholz  ]         `->
|  O+:  63 [Raffael Herzog  ]           `->
|  O+:  32 [Nikolaus Rath   ]             `->
|  O+:  19 [Nikolaus Rath   ]               Zeichensatzkodierung (was: [gnus] quoted-printable)
|  !+:  17 [Frank Haun      ]             Re: [gnus] quoted-printable
|  O+:   6 [Robin S. Socha  ]               `->
|  O+:  53 [Raymond Scholz  ]             `->
|  O+:  22 [Jens Bethkowsky ]   `->
|  O+:  34 [Nikolaus Rath   ]   `->
|  O+:  29 [Raffael Herzog  ]   `->
`----

With Oort's '%B' instead of '%I' this should get close, I guess. Only
the number of articles in hidden subthreads is missing. And I don't know
how scores are displayed in slrn, never used it there...

> Here's Jesper Harder's example:

[snip]

>> Here is something that's reasonably close to the way XNews displays it:
> 
>> (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R %>%(%-45,45s%)%<%4L  %-25,25f  %d  %i \n")
>> (setq gnus-summary-same-subject "...")

Well, I don't like the behaviour of %>...%<, because it makes a huge gap
between the indented and the following column. Is there a way to change
this, because I could imagine to put the lines-column and a new
date-column at the end.

..tt..
Jens

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