From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17169 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brady Trainor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Modify gnus alist in .gnus. Hook? Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 05:27:40 -0700 Message-ID: <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 1412944103 17310 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 12:28:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:28:23 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 14:28:17 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 1XcZIu-0008B6-GO for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:28:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47849 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcZIu-0000lw-4G for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40081) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcZIl-0000gA-7p for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcZId-0000OT-3t for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37285) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcZIc-0000Li-T7 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XcZIb-00080A-KT for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:27:57 +0200 Original-Received: from 174-24-239-229.tukw.qwest.net ([174.24.239.229]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:27:57 +0200 Original-Received: from algebrat by 174-24-239-229.tukw.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:27:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 174-24-239-229.tukw.qwest.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VyLPz9oBNqS1My1b1q329MN2C6g= 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:17169 Archived-At: I managed to shorten the group name used in `gnus-group-line-format', but not sure how to set it up for use in my .gnus.el. Either a hook or eval-after-load, but I'm failing on both. Here is my modification: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (add-to-list 'gnus-group-line-format-alist `(?z (gnus-short-group-name gnus-tmp-qualified-group) ?s)) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- A minimal change to the group-line-format would be the z in the otherwise default: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq gnus-group-line-format "%M%S%p%P%5y:%B%(%z%)\n") --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I tried lines like --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (add-hook 'gnus-started-hook `(add-to-list 'gnus-group-line-format-alist `(?z (gnus-short-group-name gnus-tmp-qualified-group) ?s)) ) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- but this did not work. -- Brady