Re: gnus-group-line-format: number of articles to look at

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hi Emanuel,

> > I want to include the number of "to be read" articles in
> > `gnus-group-line-format'.  But "%N" is not nearly what I want.
> > It seems to include all old articles that I didn't "open" - at
> > least, it gives very large integers that can't reflect what I
> > mean.
>
> I found this - I think it is "all" you can do (it is *a lot*)
> using the builtin format codes:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Group-Line-Specification.html
>
> Those you mention are described as:
>
> ‘N’ Number of unread articles and
> ‘U’ Number of unseen articles
>
> There is so much stuff that could be put in that string, it makes
> me sea sick! Are you *sure* what you seek isn't mentioned?

At least, all I tried didn't work.

But you made me think again, and ... I began to wonder why all
relevant numbers started with digit "5".  I had used "5%y" instead of
"%5y" all the time - oh my god!  Feeling a bit stupid now - anyway,
thanks for your help!


Regards,

Michael.