From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41396
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: format-spec.el: feature wish
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 13:43:43 +0100
Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <m3r8p87wjk.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
References: <vafpuimeqne.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <m3zo3zrjo6.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
 <vafr8p9os7s.fsf@INBOX.auto.gnus.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176797 5876 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:06:37 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:06:37 +0000 (UTC)
Return-Path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: (qmail 18793 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2002 12:44:35 -0000
Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13)
  by mastaler.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2002 12:44:35 -0000
Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists)
	by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1)
	id 16Lkkg-0008OW-00; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 06:44:14 -0600
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 02 Jan 2002 06:44:07 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66])
	by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA22228
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 06:43:55 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: (qmail 18781 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2002 12:43:57 -0000
Original-Received: (qmail 18776 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2002 12:43:57 -0000
Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66)
  by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Jan 2002 12:43:57 -0000
Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
	id 16Lkl3-00009l-00
	for <ding@gnus.org>; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 13:44:37 +0100
Original-To: ding@gnus.org
Original-Path: not-for-mail
Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding
Original-Lines: 12
Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org
Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1009975477 601 195.204.10.148 (2 Jan 2002 12:44:37 GMT)
Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no
Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Jan 2002 12:44:37 GMT
Mail-Copies-To: never
X-Now-Playing: David Grubbs's _Thirty-Minute Raven_: "Thirty-Minute Raven"
User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
X-Face: StQWd4j3J:U1?|;-LOcWJ.vgQ5oo+i6E7Wr6jf6iPS1J$.jlV1KDt2/]/BG<&-P>l;u"FJf
 5]u,7^\Oty`6Z\CX|mY\7wQ{Tcxk_suEQNY*br{q"`hbn(0k]jL="1b~#M!.HRQmW<<gD40#RCBa-C
 PFV,5\v<x}W&2i*re\{jt7bL!]Eo%4\w$:}1D'|
Cancel-Lock: sha1:QCqM53vFVsZZ7qk0SsWgy8oQFhQ=
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41396
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41396

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> (defvar silly-format-spec '((?t . (current-time-string))
>                             (?l . (user-login-name)))
>   "foo")

"~(form (user-login-name))@" will give you pretty much the same
results, won't it?

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