From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5950 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jack Vinson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus and BBDB and the looks of the summary buffer Date: 16 Apr 1996 10:02:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146478 1889 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:41:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:41:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA01880 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:12:55 -0700 Original-Received: from cheux.ecs.umass.edu (cheux.ecs.umass.edu [128.119.82.11]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:03:57 +0200 Original-Received: by cheux.ecs.umass.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14052; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 10:02:37 -0400 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of 15 Apr 1996 21:24:36 +0200 Original-Lines: 36 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.73/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5950 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5950 >>>>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann writes: KG> I think I don't use gnus-bbdb, but I use BBDB for composing mail. KG> Maybe this matters... If you run (gnus-bbdb-insinuate-summary-buffer) then you DO used gnus-bbdb. Otherwise the request below won't be affected by BBDB. KG> Is there a way to customize the full name displayed in the summary KG> buffer? Let's say I want to display James Smith as KG> "Jack" and James Miller as "Jim" in the name part of the KG> summary buffer. How would I go about this? I am fairly sure that BBDB displays the Name field of a BBDB record if such a thing exists. gnus-bbdb-insinuate-summary-buffer changes the gnus-summary-line-format so that it can do this (and mark the people who are known to BBDB). If this is what you are doing, then all you need to do is change the Name field of the corresponding BBDB entries. Looking through the code in gnus-bbdb-summary-get-author which is the function called when creating the summary line, the following variables are used: gnus-bbdb-summary-prefer-bbdb-data gnus-bbdb-summary-prefer-real-names If you really wanted to get fancy, you could create a new field, gnus-name, that would be used instead. However, you would have to modify gnus-bbdb-summary-get-author so that it checked for this field first (with bbdb-record-getprop) when setting the name that is returned. -- __o __o __o __o __o __o Jack Vinson _`\<_`\<_ _`\<_ _`\<_`\<_ _`\<_ Captain Jack - Purple Puddle Eater (_)/---/(_) (_)/(_) (_)/---/(_) (_)/(_) Sunderland, MA jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu