Re: Name washing

[Paul Stevenson <spaul@mail.phy.ornl.gov>]

Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:

> Paul Stevenson <spaul@mail.phy.ornl.gov> writes:
> 
> [...]
> > (defun gnus-user-format-function-a (headers)
> >   (let ((name (aref headers 2)))
> >     (ps-wash-name name)))
> 
> How does that work with the documentation? "The function will be
> passed a single dummy parameter as argument." (node: Group Line
> Specification)  ^^^^^
> 
> Bug in the documentation?

>From the 5.8.2 docs which I just printed, section 3.1.1 [Summary
Buffer Lines]  I got "the function[1] will be passed the current
header as argument". It didn't say in what form it would be, but I saw
that it was a vector, with the From: line as its second element.  I'm
a bit worried that this is not the right way to do it.  

It probably wasn't a waste of time, after all, since getting the plain
name sans email address as a string means that I can do the extra
length reduction (turning first names into initials) as I had outlined
in the first mail.

[1] The gnus-user-format-function-X