Re: Change behaviour %k in gnus-summary-line-format?

[Svend Tollak Munkejord <stm@bacchus.pvv.org>]

Today, Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 08 2003, Svend Tollak Munkejord wrote:
>
> [...]
>> the size of the message is displayed due to the %k. If it is in the
>> range of 100k, I see "0.1M".
>>
>> Would it be possible to tell Gnus to display, say, "103k" instead,
>> 1) making it easier to read, and 2) increasing the number of
>> significant digits by two?
>
> (defsubst gnus-summary-line-message-size (head)
> "Return pretty-printed version of message size.
> This function is intended to be used in
> `gnus-summary-line-format-alist'."
> (let ((c (or (mail-header-chars head) -1)))
> (cond ((< c 0) "n/a") ;; chars not available
> 	  ((< c (* 1000))       (format "%db" c))
> 	  ((< c (* 1000 10))    (format "%1.1fk" (/ c 1024.0)))
> 	  ((< c (* 1000 1000))  (format "%dk" (/ c 1024.0)))
> 	  ((< c (* 1000 10000)) (format "%1.1fM" (/ c (* 1024.0 1024))))
> 	  (t (format "%dM" (/ c (* 1024.0 1024)))))))

That was nice. Thanks!

> This will print the numbers as "941b", "1.1k", " 86k", "102k", "472k",
> "1.1M".  It seems that users have different preferences here: 100k or
> 0.1M?  900k or 0.9M?  Some people prefer the former
> <news:8665yqqqlp.fsf@pille.fhaun.de>, some the latter
> <news:r8hevize.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de>.

As implicit in my question, I support the former, since "0." takes up the
space of two characters without conveying information.

Regards,
-- 
Svend Tollak Munkejord