gnus-summary-line-format rather daunting to the average user

gnus-summary-line-format rather daunting to the average user

[jidanni]

Gentlemen,
gnus-summary-line-format is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
Its value is
"%U%R%z%I%(%t %3{%~(cut-left 2)~(max-right 6)~(pad 6)o%}%3L|%us|%-14,14f%)%3{%un%}:%s\n"
Original value was <---**** P.S., extra blank here ****
"%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"
...The %U (status), %R (replied) and %z (zcore) specs have to be handled
with care.  For reasons of efficiency, Gnus will compute what column
these characters will end up in, and "hard-code" that.  This means that
it is invalid to have these specs after a variable-length spec.  Well,
you might not be arrested, but your summary buffer will look strange,
which is bad enough.

Forget it. I give up trying to understand all this.

All I know is with what I have now, things aren't lining up.

   1 110707 19|2.1|Zoe           :Signup Complete
   1 110714  6|4.4|<complaints@cb:Your complaint has been received
   1 110714 43|-97.7|Support       :[forum.userstyles.org] luckymouse commented on your
   1 110714 11|-97.7|Support       :[forum.userstyles.org] makondo commented on your di
   1 110717232|4.6|PChome相簿    :[PChome相簿]訊息通知小天使
   1 110717103|11.2|PChome名片盒  :Missme 已確認你們為PChome好友
   1 110719208|-0.4|Flickr Mail   :[Flickr] michael_137 added your photo "2009台灣同志
   1 110719 16|1.0|變裝姊妹的奇幻:[變裝姊妹的奇幻私密] 《》新回復通知
   1 110719 13|-101.0|Cron Daemon   :Cron <jidanni@hoffa> set -e; cd youtube; test -f o
   1 110721  5||-> root@jidann:Output from your job       85

OK, we are about to set off on a trip ti make the 2.1, 4.4 field above
have a minimal width.

I decided to take the reader along so he sees how painful it is.

Firstly all those arcane one letter codes. They should be full names.

OK, it seems I want to adjust the %us string.

(setq gnus-summary-line-format
"%U%R%z%I%(%t %3{%~(cut-left 2)~(max-right 6)~(pad 6)o%}%3L|%6us|%-14,14f%)%3{%un%}:%s\n")

OK, that wasn't that tough. OK, See ya. Bye.

Re: gnus-summary-line-format rather daunting to the average user

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> OK, that wasn't that tough. OK, See ya. Bye.

You're welcome, I'm sure.  :-)

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