From: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Shorter/customized group names?
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:31:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2octbk0ca.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fxenlrcd.fsf@boostpro.com>
on Fri May 29 2009, David Abrahams <dave-AT-boostpro.com> wrote:
> on Fri May 29 2009, David Engster <deng-AT-randomsample.de> wrote:
>
>> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>>> This is pretty cool, but it's also got a few problems. It relies on
>>> implementation details of Gnus like the order in which groups get
>>> formatted, that Gnus always formats *all* the groups (it doesn't) and on
>>> some secret variables.
>>
>> It's a hack, for sure. Maybe the reason it works pretty well for me is
>> because I'm using topic mode?
>
> I'm using topic mode too.
A possibly-less-hacky approach might be to "after" advise the functions
that operate on the *Group* buffer to postprocess those strings. Still,
I really think this (or the tools to support it) should be a built-in
feature.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-29 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-27 20:02 David Abrahams
2009-05-27 21:57 ` David Engster
2009-05-28 4:42 ` David Abrahams
2009-05-28 9:43 ` David Engster
2009-05-29 14:51 ` David Abrahams
2009-05-29 16:50 ` David Engster
2009-05-29 18:02 ` David Abrahams
2009-05-29 22:31 ` David Abrahams [this message]
2009-05-30 14:46 ` David Engster
2009-06-09 19:22 ` David Abrahams
2009-07-08 19:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
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