From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14216 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Can I choose names for nnmaildir groups? Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:04:29 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291957115 13451 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 04:58:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:58:35 +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 Dec 10 05:58:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQv3r-0006rR-Rc for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:58:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49066 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQv0r-0002eD-V6 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:55:22 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1288339469 4159 85.183.18.158 (29 Oct 2010 08:04:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:04:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84891 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:27:55 -0500 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14216 Archived-At: Sean McAfee writes: > I use nnmaildir as my primary backend: > > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > '((nnmaildir "mail" (directory "/home/smcafee/.nnmaildir")))) > > Within that directory, procmail divides my incoming mail into various > subdirectories. In Gnus's group view, the groups representing those > subdirectories all have a common, longish prefix "nnmaildir+mail:". > That's a little cluttered, and I'd prefer to be able to name them > eg. "mail.list-1", "mail.list-2", etc. > > Is this possible? Extensive Googling and experimenting haven't turned > up any working solutions. Hi Sean, You need to modify gnus-group-line-format. My format line is "%M%S%p%P%-12uy%(%-60ug%)\n" I'm pretty sure that the "g" is what you want. That said %c looks promising too ... regards r. -- ☘ http://www.shamrockirishbar.com, http://splash-of-open-sauce.blogspot.com/ http://www.richardriley.net