From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1222 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Moore Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Kai's name (again) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:48:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <182bcf76.0209260710.45860f26@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667998 10230 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:39:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:49 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: morpheus.demon.co.uk Original-X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1033146847 24369 158.152.8.30 (27 Sep 2002 17:14:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:40EJ+Qaob8AjcZ7h5awCx48UaZQ= User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.5 (brussels sprouts, i586-pc-win32) Hamster/1.3.23.191 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1362 Original-Lines: 23 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1362 Tue Jan 17 17:28:49 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1222 Archived-At: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > paul.moore@atosorigin.com (Paul Moore) writes: > >> Alternatively, is there a way of asking the BBDB if the author of an >> article is listed (something I can use in a user-defined Gnus summary >> format line function) so that I can highlight the author, even if I >> don't get the BBDB name. I'm sort-of looking for a way to reimplement >> %uB, but when I looked at the code for that, it was so tied in with >> BBDB internals, that I couldn't understand it :-( [Actually, just >> having a list of public functions for using the BBDB from Lisp would >> be useful - the BBDB manual says nothing about working with it from >> Lisp, AFAICT] > > Does it help to frob bbdb/gnus-summary-prefer-real-names? This > variable is listed in the documentation of gnus-user-format-function-B. Not so you'd notice. Setting it to nil or 'bbdb makes the summary buffer use the E-Mail address rather than the name (which doesn't look much good...) Thanks for the suggestion. Paul