Re: posting name in summary buffer

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> 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::).
> `----

Ah, thank you, I did not realize that this was related.

> 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.

Reiner, I did not use a search like you advise above, I went to the
gnus variable/function index and searched in that list of index words
for all those with the word "name" in them, since I thought that was
what was incorrect (my posting name). It turns out from the advice I
got and from your information that I should instead have searched for
"from" or "headers" among other things, something did not occur to me.

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