I Want Same Summary Line Format For Nntp And Nnml Group

I Want Same Summary Line Format For Nntp And Nnml Group

[Steven Woody]

this is a sample summary line of my nntp:news.foo.bar group,
   [ 108: lance                  ] No color in console xemacs

and, this is a sample summary line of my nnml:mail.misc group,
R  [   7: -> Steven Woody        ] Out of Office AutoReply

my name is Steven Woody, so i dont want to know in my mail folder.  and, as i
treat mail folder and news folder almostly in a same way, so i wan to make the
line format of mail folder as same as news folder.

below is the currently gnus-summary-line-format value

      gnus-summary-line-format's value is 
      "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"
      Local in buffer *Summary nnml:mail.misc*; global value is 
      "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"

it's amazing that the local value and global value are exactly same! so i dont
understand what make the differences.

so, what do i do? thanks.

-
narke

Re: I Want Same Summary Line Format For Nntp And Nnml Group

[Steinar Børmer]

Steven Woody wrote:

| and, this is a sample summary line of my nnml:mail.misc group,
| R  [   7: -> Steven Woody        ] Out of Office AutoReply
| 
| my name is Steven Woody, so i dont want to know in my mail folder.
| and, as i treat mail folder and news folder almostly in a same way, so
| i wan to make the line format of mail folder as same as news folder.

You're not alone on this one.  ;)

| below is the currently gnus-summary-line-format value
| 
|       gnus-summary-line-format's value is 
|       "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"
|       Local in buffer *Summary nnml:mail.misc*; global value is 
|       "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"
| 
| it's amazing that the local value and global value are exactly same!
| so i dont understand what make the differences.

Don't worry about the fact that they are the same, it shouldn't be a
problem.
 
| so, what do i do? thanks.

(setq gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23n%]%) %s\n")

I've changed the "f" to an "n", and you can see from the docs:

`C-h v gnus-summary-line-format RET' gives (excerpts:)

,----
| %n   Name of the poster (string)
| %a   Extracted name of the poster (string)
| %A   Extracted address of the poster (string)
| %F   Contents of the From: header (string)
| %f   Contents of the From: or To: headers (string)
`----

For some reason, Gnus defaults to the To: header in nnml when "f" is
active.  I haven't looked into why, someone else can certainly answer
that one.   Also, you might want to experiment with some of the other
alternatives above.

You'll also notice that I've changed "-23,23" to "-23", and that's
because really long names will be shown.  That's my personal preference
only.

-- 
SB

When in doubt, use brute force.
                -- Ken Thompson

Re: I Want Same Summary Line Format For Nntp And Nnml Group

[Neil Woods]

>>>>> "SB" == Steinar Børmer <steinab@ifi.uio.no> writes:

SB> For some reason, Gnus defaults to the To: header in nnml when "f" is
SB> active.  I haven't looked into why, someone else can certainly answer
SB> that one.   Also, you might want to experiment with some of the other
SB> alternatives above.

Take a look at the variable 'gnus-ignored-from-addresses'.  It is a
regular expression of From headers that may be suppressed in favour of
To headers.  For example, I have it set to "Neil Woods" so that when I
look at mail I have sent, my name gets replaced by the name of the
person I sent the mail to.  In a similar fashion, in newsgroup summary
buffers, the name of the newsgroup is inserted.

-- 
Neil

Re: I Want Same Summary Line Format For Nntp And Nnml Group

[Steven Woody]

Neil Woods <cnw+usenet@pobox.com> writes:

>>>>>> "SB" == Steinar Børmer <steinab@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>
> SB> For some reason, Gnus defaults to the To: header in nnml when "f" is
> SB> active.  I haven't looked into why, someone else can certainly answer
> SB> that one.   Also, you might want to experiment with some of the other
> SB> alternatives above.
>
> Take a look at the variable 'gnus-ignored-from-addresses'.  It is a
> regular expression of From headers that may be suppressed in favour of
> To headers.  For example, I have it set to "Neil Woods" so that when I
> look at mail I have sent, my name gets replaced by the name of the
> person I sent the mail to.  In a similar fashion, in newsgroup summary
> buffers, the name of the newsgroup is inserted.
>
> -- 
> Neil

thanks all of you. after study your posts, i finnally decide using following
code:

(setq gnus-extra-headers
      '(To Newsgroups))
(setq nnmail-extra-headers gnus-extra-headers)
(setq gnus-summary-line-format
      "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n")
(setq gnus-ignored-from-addresses
      "Steven Woody")

it seems Steinar's solution of replacing '%f' with '%n' is also a good idea.

-
narke