From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68568 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Shorter/customized group names? Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 00:42:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zlcydxa0.fsf@randomsample.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243485846 25098 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2009 04:44:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 04:44:06 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16999@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 28 06:44:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M9XTG-00088n-IQ for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 06:44:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M9XSP-0001NA-Sz; Wed, 27 May 2009 23:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M9XSO-0001N0-O9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 May 2009 23:43:08 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M9XS7-0004ZT-OV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 May 2009 23:43:08 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1M9XSb-0006SK-00 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 06:43:21 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M9XS5-0006ju-1M for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 04:42:49 +0000 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 04:42:49 +0000 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 04:42:49 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hZijwlVnqPJg8h2LAyu/4Ua2/0w= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68568 Archived-At: on Wed May 27 2009, David Engster wrote: > David Abrahams 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 -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com