From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Topic mode, too limited ?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:12:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tygvzdgi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwsh3pag.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:45:43 -0600")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:39:12 +0100 Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FM> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:34:59 +0100 Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
> FM> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have played with gnus-topic-line-format a little and it should be
>>>>> fairly easy:
>>>>>
>>>>> ;; set the format to use the function below (%i is indentation)
>>>>> (setq gnus-topic-line-format "%i[ %u&topic-line; ] %v\n")
>>>>>
>>>>> ;; this function will return some string you can use, here it's just the topic name
>>>>> (defun gnus-user-format-function-topic-line (dummy)
>>>>> name)
>>>
> FM> You're a wizzard !
>>>
> FM> I mean, how that 'name' symbol came into the picture ?
>>>
> FM> I haven't find a trace of it in the doc...
>>>
>>> I *think* I copied it from someone. Or maybe I looked at gnus-topic.el
>>> and gnus-spec.el. It's lexically scoped and pretty complicated code.
>
> FM> Do you think 'name' is part of the API I can use enough so I can use it
> FM> reliably ?
>
> There's no API. It's just a lexical variable. If Lars wants to make it
> an official API he can, but I don't know if that's useful.
Lars, would you mind to add this information part of the API by using
the unused parameter of gnus-user-format-function-topic-line. That would
make a change which should be backward compatible.
Thanks
--
Francis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-26 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-23 14:18 Francis Moreau
2011-01-23 21:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-23 22:46 ` Francis Moreau
2011-01-23 23:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-23 23:25 ` Francis Moreau
2011-01-23 23:12 ` Francis Moreau
2011-01-24 17:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-24 20:21 ` Francis Moreau
2011-01-24 20:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-24 20:34 ` Francis Moreau
2011-01-24 21:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-25 5:39 ` Francis Moreau
2011-01-25 16:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-26 19:12 ` Francis Moreau [this message]
2011-01-27 1:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-27 9:06 ` Francis Moreau
2011-01-27 23:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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