From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17207 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Modify gnus alist in .gnus. Hook? Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:58:53 +0100 Message-ID: <87d296jww2.fsf@web.de> References: <87wq88p0sj.fsf@uw.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414886372 17965 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2014 23:59:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 23:59:32 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 02 00:59:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XkiZo-0007zO-5X for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:59:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkiZn-0006ST-RW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:59:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32977) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkiZg-0006SB-Cb for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkiZa-0007mS-A5 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34785) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkiZa-0007mG-3D for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:59:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XkiZW-0007t2-OW for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:59:06 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-247-135.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.247.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:59:06 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-247-135.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:59:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-247-135.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OSVYcoMU7vOpQG05lbMsuZQqNKk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17207 Archived-At: Brady Trainor writes: > (add-hook 'gnus-started-hook > `(add-to-list 'gnus-group-line-format-alist > `(?z (gnus-short-group-name > gnus-tmp-qualified-group) ?s)) > ) That's wrong. Hook elements must be functions (no matter whether named or anonymous) - but you added an expression that evaluates to a list. See (info "(elisp) Hooks"). Some more hints (although not crucial): use normal quoting when you don't need backquote's unquoting (`,'). And there is already an entry for ?z in the association list, you try to add a second entry for it. I would do it like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (add-hook 'gnus-started-hook (lambda () (assq-delete-all ?z gnus-group-line-format-alist) (push '(?z (gnus-short-group-name gnus-tmp-qualified-group) ?s) gnus-group-line-format-alist))) (setq gnus-group-line-format "%M%S%p%P%5y:%B%(%z%)\n") --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- In Emacs 25, there will be a setf'able `alist-get' function that will make modifying alists a bit more comfortable. Don't care about that info if you don't know what setf is. HTH, Michael.