Re: summary buffer format for archives

[Tassilo Horn]

Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Richard,

> I meant inside the format functions (elisp) as in the function I
> posted in the article you replied to e.g:

Ah, sorry.  I didn't get you.

,----[ (info "(gnus)Group Line Specification") ]
| `u'
|      User defined specifier.  
[...]
|      The function will be passed a single dummy parameter as
|      argument.
[...]
`----

,----[ (info "(gnus)Summary Buffer Lines") ]
| `u'
|      User defined specifier.
[...]
|      The function will be passed the current header as argument.
[...]
`----

In gnus terminology a header is:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Headers") ]
| And Gnus uses a format internally that it calls "header", which is
| what I'm talking about here.  This is a 9-element vector, basically,
| with each header (ouch) having one slot.
| 
|    These slots are, in order: `number', `subject', `from', `date',
| `id', `references', `chars', `lines', `xref', and `extra'.  There are
| macros for accessing and setting these slots--they all have
| predictable names beginning with `mail-header-' and
| `mail-header-set-', respectively.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo