Re: Shorter/customized group names?

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Wed May 27 2009, David Engster <deng-AT-randomsample.de> wrote:

> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>> Right now, my *Group* buffer looks like this:
> [...]
>>      48083 | nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.comp.lib.boost.user
>
>> Is there anything I can do to clean that up and make it easier to find
>> what I'm looking for?
>
> Just a guess, but using %G instead of %g in gnus-group-line-format will
> probably do what you want.

Well, thanks; it's definitely a start.  I'd like to do better, though. I
guess I can use a ~(...) clause and hand-code it, but I think there are
some things I wouldn't be able to do very easily that way.  For example,
I'm currently seeing:

       233 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.announce
      3251 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.asio.user
     20879 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.build
       498 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.cmake
      3788 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.documentation
        65 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.interest
       152 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.jam
       891 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.langbinding
      6353 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing
       383 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.threads.devel
      5016 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.ublas

which could be made as simple as:

       233 | gmane.comp.lib.boost.announce
      3251 |  .boost.asio.user
     20879 |  .boost.build
       498 |  .boost.cmake
      3788 |  .boost.documentation
        65 |  .boost.interest
       152 |  .boost.jam
       891 |  .boost.langbinding
      6353 |  .boost.testing
       383 |  .boost.threads.devel
      5016 |  .boost.ublas


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Dave Abrahams
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