Re: "colorize" the gnus-summary buffer ?

[Stinky Wizzleteet <wizzleteet@hotmail.com>]

厚脸王 <houlianwang@gmail.com> writes:

Hey thanks, that worked like a charm !
thx
wzzl.

> 8.4.5 Formatting Fonts
> ----------------------
>
> There are specs for highlighting, and these are shared by all the format
> variables.  Text inside the `%(' and `%)' specifiers will get the
> special `mouse-face' property set, which means that it will be
> highlighted (with `gnus-mouse-face') when you put the mouse pointer
> over it.
>
>    Text inside the `%{' and `%}' specifiers will have their normal
> faces set using `gnus-face-0', which is `bold' by default.  If you say
> `%1{', you'll get `gnus-face-1' instead, and so on.  Create as many
> faces as you wish.  The same goes for the `mouse-face' specs--you can
> say `%3(hello%)' to have `hello' mouse-highlighted with
> `gnus-mouse-face-3'.
>
>    Text inside the `%<<' and `%>>' specifiers will get the special
> `balloon-help' property set to `gnus-balloon-face-0'.  If you say
> `%1<<', you'll get `gnus-balloon-face-1' and so on.  The
> `gnus-balloon-face-*' variables should be either strings or symbols
> naming functions that return a string.  When the mouse passes over text
> with this property set, a balloon window will appear and display the
> string.  Please refer to *Note Tooltips: (emacs)Tooltips, (in GNU
> Emacs) or the doc string of `balloon-help-mode' (in XEmacs) for more
> information on this.  (For technical reasons, the guillemets have been
> approximated as `<<' and `>>' in this paragraph.)
>
>    Here's an alternative recipe for the group buffer:
>
>      ;; Create three face types.
>      (setq gnus-face-1 'bold)
>      (setq gnus-face-3 'italic)
>
>      ;; We want the article count to be in
>      ;; a bold and green face.  So we create
>      ;; a new face called `my-green-bold'.
>      (copy-face 'bold 'my-green-bold)
>      ;; Set the color.
>      (set-face-foreground 'my-green-bold "ForestGreen")
>      (setq gnus-face-2 'my-green-bold)
>
>      ;; Set the new & fancy format.
>      (setq gnus-group-line-format
>            "%M%S%3{%5y%}%2[:%] %(%1{%g%}%)\n")
>
>    I'm sure you'll be able to use this scheme to create totally
> unreadable and extremely vulgar displays.  Have fun!
>
>    Note that the `%(' specs (and friends) do not make any sense on the
> mode-line variables.
>

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