displaying unseen/unread in *Group*

displaying unseen/unread in *Group*

[Sean Neakums]

I just slapped together the following group format specifier function
function to display "0" when a group has no unread messages, "X" when
it has 0 unseen and X unread, and "X/Y" when it has X unseen and Y
unread.  It may save somebody else five minutes or so of their life,
so here it is.

There doesn't seem to be a way in the format specifier syntax to slam
two or more fields together in an aligned column, which is why I did
it this way.  Doing %5U/%5y gives "   12/  234", for example.  Replace
%5y by %11uX in gnus-group-line-format to use the function.

Example display:

[ Gnus -- 15 ]
            0: inbox 
            2: debian-hurd 
          1/1: linux-scsi 
         1/12: linux-xfs 
            0: sent 

I'm not so happy about using the gnus-tmp-* symbols (their names make
me think I shouldn't rely on them at all), but it seemed to be the
most direct way to do it.

(defun gnus-user-format-function-X (group)
  "Return \"unseen/unread\".  For use in the group specifier."
  (let ((unread gnus-tmp-number-of-unread)
	(unseen (int-to-string (gnus-number-of-unseen-articles-in-group gnus-tmp-group))))
    (if (not (or (string-equal unseen "0")))
	(concat unseen "/" unread)
      unread)))

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Re: displaying unseen/unread in *Group*

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> writes:

> I'm not so happy about using the gnus-tmp-* symbols (their names make
> me think I shouldn't rely on them at all), but it seemed to be the
> most direct way to do it.

Yeah.  I think I can guarantee that they won't go away, so they
should be safe to use.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen