Re: posting name in summary buffer

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Jan 20 2007, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:

> I am confused and don't know what to look for. The problem is that in
> my own posts in a group I see an arrow and the name of the group in
> the summary buffer where I expect to see my own name for the post I
> made. I don't know what that field is called. In the manual it seems
> to be called "the name from the From header".

,----[ <f1> v gnus-summary-line-format RET ]
| Documentation:
| *The format specification of the lines in the summary buffer.
| 
| It works along the same lines as a normal formatting string,
| with some simple extensions.
| 
| %F   Contents of the From: header (string)
| %f   Contents of the From: or To: headers (string)
`----

Doing an index search in the manual for this variable (<f1> i d m gnus
RET i gnus-summary-line-format RET), I get:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Summary Buffer Lines") ]
| `f'
|      The name, `To' header or the `Newsgroups' header (*note To From
|      Newsgroups::).
`----

Maybe we should add the part about Newsgroups in the doc string as
well.

,----[ (info "(gnus)To From Newsgroups") ]
| In some groups (particularly in archive groups), the `From' header
| isn't very interesting, since all the articles there are written by
| you.  To display the information in the `To' or `Newsgroups' headers
| instead, you need to decide three things: What information to gather;
| where to display it; and when to display it.
| 
|   1. The reading of extra header information is controlled by the
|      `gnus-extra-headers'.  This is a list of header symbols.  For
|      instance:
| 
|           (setq gnus-extra-headers
|                 '(To Newsgroups X-Newsreader))
| 
|      This will result in Gnus trying to obtain these three headers, and
|      storing it in header structures for later easy retrieval.
`----

So removing Newsgroups from `gnus-extra-headers' should help.

> I look in the manual, [...]

If you can give us some keyword which you tried for your search, we
could add them to the index of the manual.

Bye, Reiner.
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