Re: Bug in %B summary format?

[Mike Woolley <mike@ariel.co.uk>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Mike Woolley <mike@ariel.co.uk> writes:
>
>> I'm using the %B summary line format and occasionally, the root of
>> the thread is missing the "> ".
>> [...]
>>
>> Here's an example from gnu.emacs.gnus today:
>
> [...]
>
>>  .  17-Mar-03 20:50   1k   [Paul Moore          ]  Re: Displaying
>>  .  17-Mar-03 20:43   1k   `-> <Paul Moore          >  
>
> As indicated by the < ... > around the name, the second article here
> is not the child of the previous message, but is a gathered thread
> displayed after the first message.  So it really shouldn't have a
> "->" thing there at all, I think.

Personally, I like the `-> and would like to see a > on the pseudo
root, although the inconsistency is the most annoying thing :-)

Perhaps a new configuration option is required to control how the
above case is handled? Do you think it would be straightforward to
modify the threading code to do this? I'm quite willing to have a go
at this myself (although I'm not that familiar with the innards of
Gnus).

Cheers,
Mike