Re: Bug in %B summary format?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Mike Woolley <mike@ariel.co.uk> writes:

> Perhaps a new configuration option is required to control how the
> above case is handled?

I think it would probably make some sense to do it the way you want
it to be, although it would then be "lying" about what the threading
is.  Or it might make even more sense to display the gathered threads
all as roots, so they all get just ">"...

> Do you think it would be straightforward to modify the threading
> code to do this?

Pretty much.  

> I'm quite willing to have a go at this myself (although I'm not that
> familiar with the innards of Gnus).

Cool.  It's done by `gnus-summary-prepare-threads'; search for "%B"
to find the right section.  It's a long a complicated function, but
it should be somewhat understandable.

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