Re: [Suggestion] Groups of Format Variables

[Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

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

>>In Format strings like gnus-summary-line-format one can give maximum and
>>minimum length for a specific variable, so you can for instance say
>>%-20,20f to get a 20 characters wide field containing the from.
>>
>>It would be great if this was possible for several variables at once, so
>>something like {60,-60%B %s} would lead to a field containing the new
>>thread identifiers a blank and the subject, which would be exactly 60
>>characters wide.
>
>See the "Tabulation" node in the manual.

This sounds extremely promising but I'm either stupid or it is
broken. Shouldn't 

(setq gnus-summary-line-format ":%U%R %B %s %-70= |%4L |%-20,20f|%&user-date; \n")

give me a thread tree and 70-width_of_threadtree characters of the
subject? What I get is a thread tree, the full subject and then 70 space
characters.

I'm using XEmacs 21.4.6 and this evenings CVS Gnus by the way.

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