Re: Overbearing undownloaded face

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>> Customize gnus-summary-highlight.  Remove the three cons cells that
>> reference the undownloaded faces.
>>
>> If you would prefer a text indicator, you can add the %O specification to
>> gnus-summary-format-spec.
>
> Kevin, can you elaborate on the text indicator proceedure.  You are
> talking about some thing that will appear in the summary format that
> will indicate downloadedness right?
>
> How might that be done?

Sorry, mistyped the variable name.  What you want is gnus-summary-line-format.

Enter

c-h v gnus-summary-line-format

You'll get a buffer listing all of the format specifiers that can be
placed in the spec.  At the bottom of the buffer, you'll have a
customized button which will let you edit gnus-summary-line-format.

The %O specifier is a fixed width (1 char) field.  It's value will be
'+' when the article has been downloaded, '-' when the article is
undownloaded, and ' ' when the server is not agentized.

If you don't like the +/- characters, you can customize
gnus-downloaded-mark/gnus-undownloaded-mark to use different
characters.