Re: Bug in %B summary format?

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

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

> I think it would probably make some sense to do it the way you want
> it to be, although it would then be "lying" about what the threading
> is.  Or it might make even more sense to display the gathered threads
> all as roots, so they all get just ">"...

I like the appearance of slrn's threads, where the line goes backwards
from the pseudo root.

Since I dont like the "lying" part, I use gnus-summary-make-false-root
'dummy, and my threads look like this:

                                            Re: nnimap slowness
 R.47039 31-Mar [  Krzysztof Jędrucz ] 3 |-->Re: nnimap slowness
 R.47077 31-Mar [  Lars Magne Ingebrigt ] 1 | |-->Re: nnimap slowness
 R.47059 31-Mar [  Simon Josefsson      ] 1 | `-->Re: nnimap slowness
 R.47057 31-Mar [  Simon Josefsson      ] 1 `-->Re: nnimap slowness

The appearance I would like is the above with the actual dummy line
removed (and preferably a gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root variable to
allow me to make the false root start ",---" or something along that
line).

=>

 R.47039 31-Mar [  Krzysztof Jędrucz ] 3 ,---Re: nnimap slowness
 R.47077 31-Mar [+ Lars Magne Ingebrigt ] 1 | |-->Re: nnimap slowness
 R.47059 31-Mar [  Simon Josefsson      ] 1 | `-->Re: nnimap slowness
 R.47057 31-Mar [  Simon Josefsson      ] 1 `-->Re: nnimap slowness


/Johan