Printing Article Subject in Banner

Printing Article Subject in Banner

[Jake Colman]

Sometime ago, I posted a request for a method of printing the article's subject
in the page banner when printing an article.  I was sent the following code:

(add-hook 'gnus-ps-print-hook
  (lambda ()              
    (setq ps-left-header
	  (list (concat "(" (mail-header-subject gnus-current-headers) ")")
		(concat "(" (mail-header-from gnus-current-headers) ")")))
    (setq ps-right-header 
	  (list "/pagenumberstring load" 
		(concat "(" (mail-header-date gnus-current-headers) ")")))))

which does the job quite well.

A problem and a comment:

1) Problem:  after doing an AP, subsequent ps-print-buffer commands on other
   buffers do not display the buffer name in the banner.  Instead, it continues
   to display the most recently printed article's subject.

2) Shouldn't the behavior of this hook be the default behavior of gnus?  It
   would see that this is a reasonable behavior (the above problem
   notwithstanding) and should not have to be custimized individually.  What do
   you think?


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Re: Printing Article Subject in Banner

[Alan Shutko]

>>>>> "J" == Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

J> 1) Problem: after doing an AP, subsequent ps-print-buffer commands
J> on other buffers do not display the buffer name in the banner.
J> Instead, it continues to display the most recently printed
J> article's subject.

After the lambda, add 

	  (make-local-variable 'ps-left-header)
	  (make-local-variable 'ps-right-header)



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Re: Printing Article Subject in Banner

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "AS" == Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:


    AS> After the lambda, add

    AS> 	  (make-local-variable 'ps-left-header) 
    AS>           (make-local-variable 'ps-right-header)

OK.  I tried this, putting make-local-variable anywhere I could think of
'after' the lambda.  All to no avail.  Here's what I tried last:

(add-hook 'gnus-ps-print-hook
  (lambda ()              
    (make-local-variable 'ps-left-header)
    (make-local-variable 'ps-right-header)
    (setq ps-left-header
      (list (concat "(" 
        (mail-header-subject gnus-current-headers) ")")
          (concat "(" 
            (mail-header-from gnus-current-headers) ")")))
    (setq ps-right-header 
      (list "/pagenumberstring load" 
        (concat "(" 
          (mail-header-date gnus-current-headers) ")")))
  ))

Still, after I print an article, it retains the settings for ps-left-header and
ps-right-header in all my other buffers.

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Jake Colman                     

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                                       E-mail: jcolman@jnc.com
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Re: Printing Article Subject in Banner

[Yair Friedman]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> 1) Problem:  after doing an AP, subsequent ps-print-buffer commands on other
>    buffers do not display the buffer name in the banner.  Instead, it continues
>    to display the most recently printed article's subject.


Try this (untested).

(add-hook 'gnus-ps-print-hook
  (lambda ()              
    (when (string-match (buffer-name) "*Article*")
      (setq ps-left-header
	    (list (concat "(" (mail-header-subject gnus-current-headers) ")")
	   (concat "(" (mail-header-from gnus-current-headers) ")")))
      (setq ps-right-header 
	    (list "/pagenumberstring load" 
	   (concat "(" (mail-header-date gnus-current-headers) ")"))))))

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Re: Printing Article Subject in Banner

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

Yair Friedman <yfriedma@johnbryce.co.il> writes:
> Try this (untested).
> 
[...]
<     (when (string-match (buffer-name) "*Article*")

Better escape those *'s :-)

>     (when (string-match (buffer-name) "\\\\*Article\\\\*")
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lbr@mjolner.dk

Re: Printing Article Subject in Banner

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> Yair Friedman <yfriedma@johnbryce.co.il> writes:

  Yair> <     (when (string-match (buffer-name) "*Article*")

>>>>> On 05 Mar 1998, Lars Balker Rasmussen said:

  Lars> Better escape those *'s :-)

Please note the order of the arguments of string-match.  What happens
if buffer-name returns ".*"?  :-)

kai
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Re: Printing Article Subject in Banner

[Colin Rafferty]

Kai Grossjohann writes:

>>>>>> Yair Friedman <yfriedma@johnbryce.co.il> writes:
Yair> <     (when (string-match (buffer-name) "*Article*")

>>>>>> On 05 Mar 1998, Lars Balker Rasmussen said:

Lars> Better escape those *'s :-)

> Please note the order of the arguments of string-match.  What happens
> if buffer-name returns ".*"?  :-)

Also, what if gnus-single-article-buffer is nil?

(buffer-name) -> "*Article nnml:list.ding*"

-- 
Colin

Re: Printing Article Subject in Banner

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> Sometime ago, I posted a request for a method of printing the article's subject
> in the page banner when printing an article.  I was sent the following code:

[...]

> 2) Shouldn't the behavior of this hook be the default behavior of
>    gnus?  It would see that this is a reasonable behavior (the above
>    problem notwithstanding) and should not have to be custimized
>    individually.  What do you think?

It is supposed to be the default behavior --
`gnus-summary-print-article' binds those variables to reasonable
values now...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Printing Article Subject in Banner

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    LMI> Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:
    >> Sometime ago, I posted a request for a method of printing the article's
    >> subject in the page banner when printing an article.  I was sent the
    >> following code:

    LMI> [...]

    >> 2) Shouldn't the behavior of this hook be the default behavior of
    >> gnus?  It would see that this is a reasonable behavior (the above
    >> problem notwithstanding) and should not have to be custimized
    >> individually.  What do you think?

    LMI> It is supposed to be the default behavior --
    LMI> `gnus-summary-print-article' binds those variables to reasonable
    LMI> values now...

So I should not bother with the suggestions in the parallel thread of using
make-local-variable to make this all work?

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Jake Colman                     

Principia Partners LLC                  Phone: (201) 946-0300
Harborside Financial Center               Fax: (201) 946-0320
902 Plaza II                           Beeper: (800) 505-2795
Jersey City, NJ 07311                  E-mail: colman@ppllc.com
                                       E-mail: jcolman@jnc.com
                                          web: http://www.ppllc.com

Re: Printing Article Subject in Banner

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> So I should not bother with the suggestions in the parallel thread of using
> make-local-variable to make this all work?

Not unless you want to do something else than the (new) defaults.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen