error in displaying 'from:' field in summary line.

error in displaying 'from:' field in summary line.

[Maciej SomethingHere Matysiak]

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?

 m.m. (xemacs/gnus versions in headers)
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Re: error in displaying 'from:' field in summary line.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Maciej "SomethingHere" Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl> writes:

> 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.  You should really call yourself

"Maciej \"SomethingHere\" Matysiak" <phoner@blah.pl>

and news readers should strip away the surrounding "'s and the \'s in
there.

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.

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Re: error in displaying 'from:' field in summary line.

[Maciej Matysiak]

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)
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