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bug#35764: Proposal: gnus-summary-describe-article
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#35764: Proposal: gnus-summary-describe-article |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Jun 2019 13:56:13 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> Just like M-x describe-char gives tons of details about a character, a
> future gnus-summary-describe-article function could
> show all the items in the C-h v gnus-summary-line-format docstring,
> one per line, whithout the user needing to change his
> gnus-summary-line-format just to see what they all are for one article.
> Output would have % escapes helpfully mentioned.
>
> So it would list:
>
> %N Article number, left padded with spaces (string)
> %S Subject (string)
> %s Subject if it is at the root of a thread, and "" otherwise
> (string)
> %n Name of the poster (string)
> %a Extracted name of the poster (string)
> ...
>
> Like this:
>
> Article number %N: 1234
> Subject %S: Larry wants a waffle
> Poster %n: Bill Prfowitz
Sorry, I don't really see the use case here -- all the data is available
in the Article buffer, and the users already know how to use that.
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