From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68580 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Shorter/customized group names? Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:31:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zlcydxa0.fsf@randomsample.de> <877i017ec4.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 1243636365 26184 80.91.229.12 (29 May 2009 22:32:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 22:32:45 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17011@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 30 00:32:42 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 1MAAd0-00010L-9y for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 30 May 2009 00:32:42 +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 1MAAbo-00041U-0a; Fri, 29 May 2009 17:31:28 -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 1MAAbm-00041K-OJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 29 May 2009 17:31:26 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MAAbh-0007m7-2V for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 29 May 2009 17:31:26 -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 1MAAcA-0004uz-00 for ; Sat, 30 May 2009 00:31:50 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MAAbf-00010t-Hx for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 22:31:19 +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 ; Fri, 29 May 2009 22:31:19 +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 ; Fri, 29 May 2009 22:31:19 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 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:PYRH4re8zPEjYsjZVBQLHMnt+2o= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68580 Archived-At: on Fri May 29 2009, David Abrahams wrote: > on Fri May 29 2009, David Engster wrote: > >> David Abrahams 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