Re: variable-width font in summary buffer?

[bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)]

David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> on Sat Jul 05 2008, Miles Bader <miles-AT-gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> It shouldn't be that hard if gnus maintains lets you add
>> text-properties to the summary-buffer format string. If it does, you
>> could add display properties like (space :align-to COLUMN) instead of
>> using spaces for padding.
>
> That's an interesting idea. Do you have any pointers that might help
> me discover how to do that? I'm a longtime emacs user but this sounds
> like a bit of a stretch for me to figure out on my own.

There are several ways to do this, like

  (defvar my-align-foo (propertize " " 'display '(space :align-to 50)))

then

  (setq gnus-summary-line-format "[...] %~(form my-align-foo)@%s\n")

or

  (defun gnus-user-format-function-align-foo (dummy) my-align-foo)
  (setq gnus-summary-line-format "[...] %u&align-foo;%s\n")

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Johan Bockgård