Re: I Want Same Summary Line Format For Nntp And Nnml Group

[Steinar Børmer]

Steven Woody wrote:

| and, this is a sample summary line of my nnml:mail.misc group,
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| 
| my name is Steven Woody, so i dont want to know in my mail folder.
| and, as i treat mail folder and news folder almostly in a same way, so
| i wan to make the line format of mail folder as same as news folder.

You're not alone on this one.  ;)

| below is the currently gnus-summary-line-format value
| 
|       gnus-summary-line-format's value is 
|       "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"
|       Local in buffer *Summary nnml:mail.misc*; global value is 
|       "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"
| 
| it's amazing that the local value and global value are exactly same!
| so i dont understand what make the differences.

Don't worry about the fact that they are the same, it shouldn't be a
problem.
 
| so, what do i do? thanks.

(setq gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23n%]%) %s\n")

I've changed the "f" to an "n", and you can see from the docs:

`C-h v gnus-summary-line-format RET' gives (excerpts:)

,----
| %n   Name of the poster (string)
| %a   Extracted name of the poster (string)
| %A   Extracted address of the poster (string)
| %F   Contents of the From: header (string)
| %f   Contents of the From: or To: headers (string)
`----

For some reason, Gnus defaults to the To: header in nnml when "f" is
active.  I haven't looked into why, someone else can certainly answer
that one.   Also, you might want to experiment with some of the other
alternatives above.

You'll also notice that I've changed "-23,23" to "-23", and that's
because really long names will be shown.  That's my personal preference
only.

-- 
SB

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