Re: The old high low face gambit

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

[NOTE: repost of something I butchered in some awful way due to heavy
local tinkerage.  Somehow ended up on ding with no subject]

Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:

> On the Memorial of Saint Ambrose, 2001, at 14:23, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> said:
>
>> How can I get finer granularity than just `high' face and `low' face
>> on the basis of scoring?
>>
>> I mean something like a face for scores of 1, different for 5,
>> different yet above 10 etc.  (I have the default score set to 1)
>
> I tried this for a while but couldn't get a meaningful *and* pleasing
> *and* easy-to-read combination of colors.  After a while it just
> bugged me and I wound up ditching scoring altogether.  At any rate,
> here's the code I used:

Thanks bill, looks like what I was after.

[...]
Probably just my lack of lisp knowledgw but what about faces 50 thru
75?

Where do they come in?

And what, in general does the rest of it do?

> (setq gnus-summary-highlight
>   '(
>     ((and (<= score 100) (> score 0)) . my-gnus-face-80)
>     ((and (<= score 200) (> score 100)) . my-gnus-face-85)
>     ((and (<= score 300) (> score 200)) . my-gnus-face-90)
>     ((and (<= score 400) (> score 300)) . my-gnus-face-95)
>     ((> score 400) . my-gnus-face-100)
>     ((= mark gnus-canceled-mark)

I guess a blow by blow thing  is out of the question but it looks like
some kind of trick stuff is happening with lots of existing variables
like ancient face, default face etc.   Can I just ignore all that? I'm
thinking along the line of maybe 3-4 special scoring faces.

I'm thinking like adding a line with procmail, since I use procmail
anyway, to certain messages like:
X-Score: 5 

I'm thinking procmail because the reason for adding a scoring line may
change frequently and procmail lends itself to being chaned quickly
from the command line.  I can imaging scripting that would quickly
insert a rule to add X-Score: 10 to replies to a certain message for
example.

Then having scoring set up to find the 10 or whatever and set a face.
Similar for other higher/lower faces.

It would be one way to have followup scoring without invoking the
dreaded `adaptive' score files.