Re: Thread hiding and gnus-summary-line-format

[pkd]

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004, Lancelot appearing sideways wrote:


> Hi.  I use thread-hiding a lot, and I was just thinking today that it
> would be nice if the ellipses indicating a hidden thread could be
> followed by the number of hidden articles.  I came across "%t" in the
> gnus-summary-line-format which will display the count, but I only
> want the count to appear when the thread is collapsed; in other
> words, I want the %t count to appear and disappear along with the
> ellipses.

> It looks like what I want can be handled via "%u", but I have no idea
> how to write a function like this, knowing very little about Lisp or
> Emacs Lisp (though I'm competent in a number of other languages and
> don't mind learning).  Could someone cobble together a quick function
> that does what I'm looking for, or direct me to a sample
> gnus-user-format-function from which I could work?

this is not exactly what you're looking for, but it can be a starting
point: <f3c7614c.0305180210.5c0f9ffc@posting.google.com>

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