Re: Group based gnus-summary-line-format ?

[<jari.aalto@poboxes.com>]

| 98-03-15 Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> list.ding
| >>>>> "ja" == <jari.aalto@poboxes.com> writes:
| 
| | Isn't it sufficient to set the variable, then call gnus-compile?
| 
| ja> I mean that if I have 5 different summary line formats for 5
| ja> different "type of" Groups: nntp, private mail, mailing list, server
| ja> logs ....
| 
| I have nearly as many.  I have gnus-select-group-hook set an appropriate
| gnus-summary-line-format based on the newsgroup name, then at the end it
| calls gnus-compile.  It does not take that long.

Thanks  ratinox, I think I got it working. I compile the sspec like this
now:

      ;;  I'm only interested in compiling this spec
      (let* ((gnus-format-specs (list (assq 'summary gnus-format-specs))))
        (gnus-compile))


But I'm curious, what does gnus-update-format-specifications do?

jari