Re: registry marks in gnus 5.13

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:05:05 +0000 <emacsnews@aleblanc.cotse.net> wrote: 

> I am using gnus 5.13 with emacs 23.0.60.1 in Ubuntu Intrepid
> I see no registry marks in my summary buffer.
> I have the following lines in my .gnus.el file:

> ;; gnus registry 
> (setq gnus-registry-cache-file "~/.emacs.d/.gnus.registry.eld"
>       gnus-registry-max-entries 25000
>       gnus-registry-use-long-group-names t
>       gnus-registry-install t)
> (gnus-registry-initialize)

> I have not changed the value of gnus-registry-marks which is:

> ((Important :char 105 :image "summary_important")
>  (Work :char 119 :image "summary_work")
>  (Personal :char 112 :image "summary_personal")
>  (To-Do :char 116 :image "summary_todo")
>  (Later :char 108 :image "summary_later"))

> I tried all the default registry marks, and checked with the
> gnus-registry-get-article-marks function that the marks have indeed been
> allocated.

> I suspect it has something to do with the :image property, but this is
> not documented in the info files.

:image is for future expansion, we'll associate an image with each mark
eventually (suggestions for images are welcome).  The :char is all that
matters for now.  You can use any character.  I use:

(setq gnus-registry-marks  
      '((Important
     :char ?ι
     :image "summary_important")
    (Work
     :char ?ω
     :image "summary_work")
    (Personal
     :char ?π
     :image "summary_personal")
    (To-Do
     :char ?τ
     :image "summary_todo")
    (Later
     :char ?λ
     :image "summary_later")))

I display marks like this:

gnus-summary-line-format is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
Its value is 
"%U%R %10&user-date; $%6uS [%6uM] %6k  %B %(%4L: %*%-25,25a%) %s \n"

(the "[%6uM]" part is what matters)

I set up the M user format like this:

(defalias 'gnus-user-format-function-M 'gnus-registry-user-format-function-M)

Let me know if you still have trouble.

Ted