One-line summary

One-line summary

[Toby Speight]

I've just upgraded my Emacs to 20.4 and now my Summary buffers look
like this:

 ----start
!*+Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  !*+!*+Q  Q  Q  Q  !*+
 ----end

No author or subject, and no newline.  I think I've seen this before,
but can't remember what was needed to fix it.  I'm using pgnus 0.88 -
is this sufficient?

gnus-summary-line-format's value is
"%U%R%z%>%(%[%-20,20a: %-4,4L%]%) %s\n"

I think I've got it - in gnus-parse-complex-format, we (re-search-forward
"%\\([0-9]+\\)?\\([{}()<>]\\)" nil t) for spec letters that are matched
pairs.  But ">" isn't matched with "<" in gnus-summary-line-format!

One-line summary

[Toby Speight]

I've just upgraded my Emacs to 20.4 and now my Summary buffers look
like this:

 ----start
!*+Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  !*+!*+Q  Q  Q  Q  !*+
 ----end

No author or subject, and no newline.  I think I've seen this before,
but can't remember what was needed to fix it.  I'm using pgnus 0.88 -
is this sufficient?

gnus-summary-line-format's value is
"%U%R%z%>%(%[%-20,20a: %-4,4L%]%) %s\n"

Re: One-line summary

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> I've just upgraded my Emacs to 20.4 and now my Summary buffers look
> like this:
> 
>  ----start
> !*+Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  !*+!*+Q  Q  Q  Q  !*+
>  ----end

This really sounds like your `gnus-summary-line-format' doesn't have a 
newline at the end...

[...]

> gnus-summary-line-format's value is
> "%U%R%z%>%(%[%-20,20a: %-4,4L%]%) %s\n"

... but since it does, I'm totally confused & bewildered.  I've never
seen anything like that.  Are you still seeing it, lo, after all these 
weeks?

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

Re: One-line summary

[Toby Speight]

Lars> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <URL:mailto:larsi@gnus.org>

0> In article <m3iu505gt4.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>, Lars wrote:

Lars> Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

>> I've just upgraded my Emacs to 20.4 and now my Summary buffers look
>> like this:
>>
>> ----start
>> !*+Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  Q  !*+!*+Q  Q  Q  Q  !*+
>> ----end

Lars> ...  I've never seen anything like that.  Are you still seeing
Lars> it, lo, after all these weeks?

Er, no.  I'd forgotten about it until you mentioned it just now.  I
can't remember what was wrong or what I did to fix it though (except I
think it was my fault, rather than something that required a patch to
Gnus.)

Re: One-line summary

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> Er, no.  I'd forgotten about it until you mentioned it just now.  I
> can't remember what was wrong or what I did to fix it though (except I
> think it was my fault, rather than something that required a patch to
> Gnus.)

As I recall, the problem was that the %> in your format string was
incorrectly treated as a closing delimiter.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

Re: One-line summary

[Toby Speight]

Aaron> Aaron M. Ucko <URL:mailto:amu@MIT.EDU>

0> In article <udliu4wgl3c.fsf@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>, Aaron
0> wrote:

Aaron> As I recall, the problem was that the %> in your format string
Aaron> was incorrectly treated as a closing delimiter.

Good memory!  This *is* a Gnus bug AFAICS (perhaps it needs to change
symbol tables in that code).  My workaround was simply to not use
"%>", but that's not what I'd want in a perfect world.

Re: One-line summary

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> Good memory!  This *is* a Gnus bug AFAICS (perhaps it needs to change
> symbol tables in that code).  My workaround was simply to not use
> "%>", but that's not what I'd want in a perfect world.

The %< %> specs were taken by the new balloon-help thing, which made
things go wonky.

I've now moved these specs to %« and %», which is obviously a bad
idea, but all the other parenthesis-thingies were taken.  Ideas?

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