From: Maciej Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl>
Subject: Re: error in displaying 'from:' field in summary line.
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:29:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hhlmkisihl.fsf@blah.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33d6qy5vj.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:05:04 +0200")
On the 17th of August 2001 at 19:05, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>> Most of you should see in summary buffer my 'from' as:
>> aciej "SomthingHere" Matysiak
>> I mean, the first letter is eaten somehow.
>> In my gnus-summary-line-format I use %f.
>> Is this a bug, or misuse of "'s?
>
> The " character is not valid where you use it according to the standards.
i supposed so, but i wasn't sure.
> You should really call yourself
> "Maciej \"SomethingHere\" Matysiak" <phoner@blah.pl>
no no. i'm not using such scheme at all. i know it's evil. but one can't
teach all who are using pure "'s, and unfortunately there's quite a lot such
misbehaving people :(
> Anyway. Gnus uses a very simple (and efficient) method to extract the
> components. See the "Summary Buffer Format" node in the Gnus manual
> for details on how to get correct results.
thank you, i will.
m.m. (who always forgets to take a look at auto-capitalize.el)
--
use gnus not guns!
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-10 20:33 Maciej SomethingHere Matysiak
2001-08-17 17:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-17 17:29 ` Maciej Matysiak [this message]
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