Summary buffer lines howto?

Summary buffer lines howto?

[Simo Lahteinen]

Gnus manual (section 3.1.1: Summary Buffer Lines) states very briefly
that when using %B in gnus-summary-line-format it is possible to make
things look better:

  "Note that it is possible to make the thread display look really
   neat by replacing the default ASCII characters with graphic
   line-drawing glyphs."

How would this happen in practise?

I am using Win XP SP2. 

Thanks,

Simo

Re: Summary buffer lines howto?

[Simo Lahteinen]

Simo Lahteinen <fake.fake@hotmail.com> writes:

> Gnus manual (section 3.1.1: Summary Buffer Lines) states very briefly
> that when using %B in gnus-summary-line-format it is possible to make
> things look better:
>
>   "Note that it is possible to make the thread display look really
>    neat by replacing the default ASCII characters with graphic
>    line-drawing glyphs."
>
> How would this happen in practise?
>
> I am using Win XP SP2. 

What I forgot to mention is that I am using XEmacs 21.4.18.

Re: Summary buffer lines howto?

[Oliver Heins]

Simo Lahteinen <fake.fake@hotmail.com> writes:

> Gnus manual (section 3.1.1: Summary Buffer Lines) states very briefly
> that when using %B in gnus-summary-line-format it is possible to make
> things look better:
>
>   "Note that it is possible to make the thread display look really
>    neat by replacing the default ASCII characters with graphic
>    line-drawing glyphs."
>
> How would this happen in practise?
>
> I am using Win XP SP2. 

Don't know if it works under *Windows* Emacsen, but here looks 

;; Grafische Bäume
;(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "\x490b3 ")                           ; "> " 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "\x4912f ")                           ; "> " 
;(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "\x490b3 ")                     ; "> " 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "\x490f8 ")                     ; "> " 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "  ")                        ; "" 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "\x4903c\x49020\x490fa ")  ; "+-> " 
;(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "\x49034\x49020\x490fb ")      ; "\\-> " 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "\x490b0\x49020\x490fa ")      ; "\\-> " 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "\x49022")                        ; "| " 

very nice.  The commented lines are alternatives you might want to
choose.

You have to add %B to your summary buffer line to make it work, of
course.


olli

-- 
NP: nothing

Re: Summary buffer lines howto?

[Chunhua Li]

Oliver Heins <olli@sopos.org> writes:

> Simo Lahteinen <fake.fake@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Gnus manual (section 3.1.1: Summary Buffer Lines) states very briefly
> > that when using %B in gnus-summary-line-format it is possible to make
> > things look better:
> >
> >   "Note that it is possible to make the thread display look really
> >    neat by replacing the default ASCII characters with graphic
> >    line-drawing glyphs."
> >
> > How would this happen in practise?
> >
> > I am using Win XP SP2. 
> 
> Don't know if it works under *Windows* Emacsen, but here looks 
> 
> ;; Grafische Bäume
> ;(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "\x490b3 ")                           ; "> " 
> (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "\x4912f ")                           ; "> " 
> ;(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "\x490b3 ")                     ; "> " 
> (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "\x490f8 ")                     ; "> " 
> (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "  ")                        ; "" 
> (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "\x4903c\x49020\x490fa ")  ; "+-> " 
> ;(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "\x49034\x49020\x490fb ")      ; "\\-> " 
> (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "\x490b0\x49020\x490fa ")      ; "\\-> " 
> (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "\x49022")                        ; "| " 
> 
> very nice.  The commented lines are alternatives you might want to
> choose.
> 
> You have to add %B to your summary buffer line to make it work, of
> course.
> 
> 
> olli
> 
> -- 
> NP: nothing

I have configured the summary buffer line format according to olli, but this doesn't 
work for me. 

My .gnus.el reads like

;(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "\x490b3 ")                           ; "> " 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "\x4912f ")                           ; "> " 
;(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "\x490b3 ")                     ; "> " 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "\x490f8 ")                     ; "> " 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "  ")                        ; "" 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "\x4903c\x49020\x490fa ")  ; "+-> " 
;(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "\x49034\x49020\x490fb ")      ; "\\-> " 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "\x490b0\x49020\x490fa ")      ; "\\-> " 
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "\x49022")                        ; "| " 

(setq gnus-summary-line-format '"%U%R%z%I%B%d %(%[%3L: %-16,16f%]%) %s\n")

The summary buffer line looks like

   *16-Jul [ 16: Simo Lahteinen  ] Summary buffer lines howto?
       *17-Jul [ 16: Simo Lahteinen  ] 
       *20-Jul [ 38: Oliver Heins    ] 
   *16-Jul [ 31: Don Saklad      ] How to develop even better explanations, ...
       *17-Jul [ 74: B. T. Raven     ] 
           *17-Jul [ 88: Priyadarshan    ] Re: How to develop even better explanations...
               *19-Jul [104: B. T. Raven     ] 
               *29-Jul [ 12: Harald Maier    ] 

Is there something wrong?

Chunhua