Re: gnus-goto-colon

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík) writes:

> ;; Fix by Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>.
> ;; If you want the cursor to go somewhere else, set these two
> ;; functions in some startup hook to whatever you want.
> (defalias 'gnus-summary-position-point 'gnus-goto-colon)
> (defalias 'gnus-group-position-point 'gnus-goto-colon)
>
> It is the cause of my problems in groups where I have customised
> gnus-summary-line-format to include only the subjects and these subjects
> can be very long (~80 chars) and can contain colons. Now, when I'm reading
> by subjects, when moving to next article, the point jumps here and there
> (if the subject contains `:') and it is really distracting. I'd like to get
> rid of this in my .gnus:
>
> ; Workaround for Gnus inconvenience
> (defalias 'gnus-summary-position-point 'beginning-of-line)
>
> What was the reason for this change?

What change?  The code you cite has been the same since (at least)
Gnus version 5.0.

Maybe you can customize `gnus-summary-line-format' as described below
to achieve what you want instead?

Positioning Point
-----------------

   Gnus usually moves point to a pre-defined place on each line in most
buffers.  By default, point move to the first colon character on the
line.  You can customize this behaviour in three different ways.

   You can move the colon character to somewhere else on the line.

   You can redefine the function that moves the point to the colon.  The
function is called `gnus-goto-colon'.

   But perhaps the most convenient way to deal with this, if you don't
want to have a colon in your line, is to use the `%C' specifier.  If you
put a `%C' somewhere in your format line definition, Gnus will place
point there.