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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> writes:

> I wish every time I select an article, the cursor in the summary
> buffer wouldn't be moved back over to the left.  If I moved it over to
> the right I wish it would stay there.
>
> Or maybe we can be allowed our choice of 'goal fields'.  E.g. I wish
> the cursor to stay on the first char of the subject, instead of the
> date where it goes now.

> From the Oort Gnus manual:

,----
| Positioning point
|
|    Gnus usually moves point to a pre-defined place on each line in most
| buffers.  By default, point move to the first colon character on the
| line.  You can customize this behaviour in three different ways.
| 
|    You can move the colon character to somewhere else on the line.
| 
|    You can redefine the function that moves the point to the colon.  The
| function is called `gnus-goto-colon'.
| 
|    But perhaps the most convenient way to deal with this, if you don't
| want to have a colon in your line, is to use the `%C' specifier.  If you
| put a `%C' somewhere in your format line definition, Gnus will place
| point there.
`----

The colon works in Gnus 5.9, but I think `%C' and the function
`gnus-goto-colon' might be new in Oort Gnus.