Re: gnus-treat-date-user-defined not working (patch included)

[jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs)]

* 1999-02-26 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> list.ding
* Message-Id: <m3hfs9hcwb.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
| jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:
| 
| > How do I make gnus to display it like this all the time?
| 
| See `gnus-treat-date-user-defined'.

    gnus-treat-date-user-defined's value is 
    gnus-article-date-user

    Documentation:
    Display the date in a user-defined format.
    The format is defined by the `gnus-article-time-format' variable.

    ---

    gnus-article-time-format's value is 
    my-gnus-article-date

    Documentation:
    Format for display of Date headers in article bodies.
    See `format-time-string' for the possible values.

    The variable can also be function, which should return a complete Date
    header.  The function is called with one argument, the time, which can
    be fed to `format-time-string'.

I had:

        (setq gnus-treat-date-user-defined 'gnus-article-date-user)
        (setq gnus-article-time-format     'my-gnus-article-date)

But it didn't make a difference Hm; after debugging I found 
out that the the visual had to be turned on in order to these
variables be respected. I propose following patch to the documentation.

jari


--- gnus-art.el.orig	Fri Feb 26 22:33:09 1999
+++ gnus-art.el	Fri Feb 26 22:34:18 1999
@@ -717,7 +717,8 @@
 
 (defcustom gnus-treat-date-user-defined nil
   "Display the date in a user-defined format.
-The format is defined by the `gnus-article-time-format' variable."
+The format is defined by the `gnus-article-time-format' variable.
+Note: `gnus-visual' must contain value 'article-highlight."
   :group 'gnus-article-treat
   :type gnus-article-treat-custom)