patch: support '/' in group shortening

patch: support '/' in group shortening

[dme]

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Our MS Exchange server uses '/' as a path separator (as opposed to
'.').  This patch attempts to make gnus-short-group-name guess which
is in use and flatten the name accordingly.

Apologies if my elisp is poor.


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*** gnus.el	2000/08/21 13:49:24	5.142
--- gnus.el	2000/09/06 08:43:52
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  		group (substring group (+ 1 colon))))
  	(setq foreign (concat foreign ":")))
        ;; Collapse group name leaving LEVELS uncollapsed elements
!       (let* ((glist (split-string group "\\."))
! 	     (glen (length glist))
  	     res)
  	(setq levels (- glen levels))
  	(dolist (g glist)
  	  (push (if (>= (decf levels) 0)
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  		group (substring group (+ 1 colon))))
  	(setq foreign (concat foreign ":")))
        ;; Collapse group name leaving LEVELS uncollapsed elements
!       (let* ((slist (split-string group "/"))
! 	     (slen (length slist))
! 	     (dlist (split-string group "\\."))
! 	     (dlen (length dlist))
! 	     glist
! 	     glen
! 	     gsep
  	     res)
+ 	(if (> slen dlen)
+ 	    (setq glist slist
+ 		  glen slen
+ 		  gsep "/")
+ 	  (setq glist dlist
+ 		glen dlen
+ 		gsep "."))
  	(setq levels (- glen levels))
  	(dolist (g glist)
  	  (push (if (>= (decf levels) 0)
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  		      (substring g 0 1))
  		  g)
  		res))
! 	(concat foreign (mapconcat 'identity (nreverse res) "."))))))
  
  (defun gnus-narrow-to-body ()
    "Narrow to the body of an article."
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  		      (substring g 0 1))
  		  g)
  		res))
! 	(concat foreign (mapconcat 'identity (nreverse res) gsep))))))
  
  (defun gnus-narrow-to-body ()
    "Narrow to the body of an article."

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dme.

Re: patch: support '/' in group shortening

[Simon Josefsson]

dme@dme.org writes:

> Our MS Exchange server uses '/' as a path separator (as opposed to
> '.').  This patch attempts to make gnus-short-group-name guess which
> is in use and flatten the name accordingly.

Applied, thanks.