Re: How to define this summary-line-format?

[leon]

Sébastien Kirche <sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr.invalid> writes:

> At 12:11 on nov 7 2005, leon said :
>
> It is not only a modeline format, it also uses gnus buffers
> configuration (look at the docstring of gnus-buffer-configuration)
>
> For example I use the following to have the frame splitted horizontally
> while reading a message with the message body at the bottom and the
> group summary on the top :
>
>     (gnus-add-configuration
>      '(article
>        (vertical 1.0 (summary 13 point)
>                  (article 1.0) )))

I mean the dashed lines in the summary window. Those separate date & name
etc. I tried using '|' but it looked like continuous line. I really like
the dashed line.

>
>
> With a custom date format :
> ;; affichage de la date en relatif
> (setq gnus-user-date-format-alist
>         '(((gnus-seconds-today) . "     %k:%M")                               
> ;dans la journée =      14:39
>               ((+ 86400 (gnus-seconds-today)) . "hier %k:%M")     ;hier       
>      = hier 14:39
>               ((+ 604800 (gnus-seconds-today)) . "%a  %k:%M")     ;dans la 
> semaine = sam  14:39
>               ((gnus-seconds-month) . "%a  %d")                               
> ;ce mois         = sam  28
>               ((gnus-seconds-year) . "%b %d")                                 
> ;durant l'année  = mai  28
>               (t . "%b %d '%y")))                                             
> ;le reste        = mai  28 '05
>

Get this error: "symbol's value as variable is void: gnus-face-5"
My knowledge of gnus doesn't allow me to debug this. 

> The formats are those of format-time-string and should use your locals
> to write the days and months names in your language.
>
>
> You need to set the use of the thread display in the mode line format,
> for example :
> (setq gnus-summary-line-format 
>       (concat
>        "%*%5{%U%R%z%}"
>        "%4{|%}"
>        "%2{%-10&user-date;%}"
>        "%4{|%}"
>        "%2{ %}%(%-24,24f"
>        "%4{|%}"
>        "%2{%5i%}"
>        "%4{|%}"
>        "%2{%6k %}%)"
>        "%4{|%}"
>        "%2{ %}%3{%B%}%1{%s%}\n")) ;%B = threads display
>
> The threads nice characters can be obtained by changing the default
> display; It works nice under GNU/Linux and OSX (with atsui support), I
> have not tested recently with Windows.
>
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "\x490b3 ") ; "> "
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "\x490b3 ")                    
> ; "> "
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "  ")                 ; ""
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "\x4903c\x49020\x490fb ") 
> ; "+-> "
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "\x49022")                       
> ; "| "
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "\x49034\x49020\x490fb ")      
> ; "\\-> "
>
> Some variants :
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "\x4912f ")                          
> ; "> "
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "\x490f8 ")                    
> ; "> "
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "\x4912f ")                    
> ; "> "
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "\x4912e ")                 
> ; ""
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "\x490b3 ")                 
> ; ""
>         (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "\x490b0\x49020\x490fa ")   ; 
> "\\-> "
>

I highly appreciate your help! However I got some weird boxes instead
of the beautiful threading. The screenshot is here 
(http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/sl392/gnus.png). 

I'm running gnus 5.10.6 from emacs-snapshot-gtk in debian
unstable. It's actually 22.0.50.1. I think it should have utf-8
support. Maybe I'm missing something in the configure. Any ideas?

>
> Let's try what I wrote and look at the docstrings of the different
> variables and function to know the format specifiers to be able to build
> your own display.
>
> HTH.
> -- 
> Sébastien Kirche

Again, thanks very much

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