From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37888 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maciej Matysiak Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: error in displaying 'from:' field in summary line. Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:29:10 +0200 Organization: =?iso-8859-2?q?gnu=B6ni?= ludzie Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035173562 17946 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:12:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:12:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 4223 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2001 17:38:09 -0000 Original-Received: from wsc.pl (qmailr@212.244.163.99) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Aug 2001 17:38:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 31925 invoked by uid 666); 17 Aug 2001 17:36:47 -0000 Original-To: ding list In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:05:04 +0200") X-Kibology: If you always remember the bane of conflict between the fact that sex is galactic and vril, it's because sometimes life's dice come up with your number. X-Url: http://phoner.blah.pl/ Mail-Copies-To: never X-Disclaimer: My opinions are only mine, not my employer. User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Copyleft) Original-Lines: 28 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37888 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37888 On the 17th of August 2001 at 19:05, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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" 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!