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Re: How to adjust the windows configuration?
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Benjamin L. Russell |
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Re: How to adjust the windows configuration? |
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:52:10 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) |
Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
> DekuDekuplex@Yahoo.com (Benjamin L. Russell) writes:
>
>> Could somebody please describe how to customize the windows
>> configuration to a three-panel layout with the group buffer on the
>> *upper*-left, the summary buffer on the top-right, and the article
>> buffer on the *bottom*, given the following code?
>
> Here's what I have, not sure it is even adapted from the manual:
>
> (gnus-add-configuration
> '(article
> (vertical 1.0
> (horizontal 8
> (group 50)
> (summary 1.0 point) )
> (horizontal 1.0
> (article 1.0)))))
>
> (gnus-add-configuration
> '(summary
> (vertical 1.0
> (horizontal 1.0
> (group 50)
> (summary 1.0 point)
> (if gnus-carpal
> '(summary-carpal 4))))))
Thank you very much for your response.
Based on your code, I have customized the relevant portion of my .gnu.el
file and commented thereof to describe the functionality of each line
therein, as follows:
> ; Toggle "gnus-carpal" settings; i.e., display of mouse-clickable buttons to
> control navigation
> (setq gnus-carpal t) ; turn on mouse button-based navigation
> ;; The following section controls the layout after displaying the article
> buffer
> ; change the configuration of a single buffer setting, without using the
> complicated gnus-buffer-configuration variable (see "Frequently Asked
> Questions: Window Layout" at http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_295.html)
> (gnus-add-configuration
> ; configure the article buffer
> '(article
> ; split the screen in two vertically, and use the following settings for
> the upper half of the window
> (vertical 1.0
> ; the original number of rows for the group + summary buffers
> together, copied from "Frequently Asked Questions: FAQ 4 - Reading messages"
> (http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_400.html#SEC473)
> (horizontal 28
> ; the original number of columns for the group buffer
> width setting, copied from "Frequently Asked Questions: FAQ 4 - Reading
> messages" (http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_400.html#SEC473)
> ; (group 50)
> ; setting of the number of columns for the group
> buffer width setting to match my settings in Forte' Agent 5.0
> ; (group 53)
> ; setting of the number of columns for the group
> buffer width setting to display all newsgroup names without truncation
> (group 77)
> ; let the summary buffer take the remainder of the
> width of the rows, and position the point (cursor) therein
> (summary 1.0 point) )
> ; let the lower half take up the remainder of the horizontal
> space, and apply the following settings therein
> (horizontal 1.0
> ; let the article buffer take up the entire space of
> the lower half of the window
> (article 1.0)))))
> ;; The following section controls the layout after displaying the group and
> summary buffers only (i.e., before displaying the article buffer)
> ; change the configuration of a single buffer setting, without using the
> complicated gnus-buffer-configuration variable (see "Frequently Asked
> Questions: Window Layout" at http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_295.html)
> (gnus-add-configuration
> ; configure the summary buffer
> '(summary
> ; split the screen in two vertically, and use the following settings for
> the upper half of the window (unless the lower half is specified separately
> as above, here, the upper half may take up all the vertical space of the
> window)
> (vertical 1.0
> ; split the window horizontally, and take up whatever space is
> available for the following settings
> (horizontal 1.0
> ;; ; the original number of columns for the group buffer
> width setting, copied from "Frequently Asked Questions: FAQ 4 - Reading
> messages" (http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_400.html#SEC473)
> ;; (group 50)
> ;; ; setting of the number of columns for the group
> buffer width setting to match my setting in Forte' Agent 5.0
> ;; (group 53)
> ; setting of the number of columns for the group
> buffer width setting to display all newsgroup names without truncation
> (group 77)
> ; let the summary buffer take the remainder of the
> width of the rows, and position the point (cursor) therein
> (summary 1.0 point)))))
Now my layout is configured as below:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| Group Buffer | Summary Buffer |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| Article Buffer |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The only remaining difficulty is the correct specification of the
"group-carpal" and "summary-carpal" variables with the "gnus-carpal"
variable set to t.
The "gnus-carpal" variable toggles enabling display of buttons to click
for a given buffer; e.g., with "gnus-carpal" set to t, one can then
enable specification of "summary-carpal 4" to dedicate 4 columns to
display of summary-carpal buttons for the summary buffer, "group-carpal
4" to dedicate 4 columns to display of group-carpal buttons for the
group buffer, etc.
Unfortunately, even with "gnus-carpal" set to t as above, the following
code snippet only displays the "summary-carpal" buttons in a narrow
4-column area immediately to the right of the summary buffer:
> (gnus-add-configuration
> '(summary
> (vertical 1.0
> (horizontal 1.0
> (group 50)
> (summary 1.0 point)
> (if gnus-carpal
> '(summary-carpal 4))))))
The buttons are impossible to read in this configuration.
Therefore, if possible, I would additionally prefer to specify 4 *rows*
of the "summary-carpal" buttons immediately below the summary buffer,
and a matching 4 *rows* of "group-carpal" buttons immediately below the
group buffer, with perhaps another 4 *rows" of "???????-carpal" buttons
(the term, if it exists, for the article-related buttons is not clear
from the online documentation at "Gnus 5.1 Manual - Various" (see
http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/use/info/gnus/gnus_8.html))
immediately below the article buffer; thusly:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| Group Buffer | Summary Buffer |
| | |
| | |
| | |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Group-carpal | Summary-carpal |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | |
| | |
| | |
| Article Buffer |
| | |
| | |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
| ???????-carpal |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Would anybody know how to specify *rows*, instead of *columns*, for the
"group-carpal" and "summary-carpal" sections above, and how to configure
the "???????-carpal" section as above?
Additionally, the following related issues are not clear:
1) What term should be substituted for "???????" in the above-described
"???????-carpal" term for button functionality for the article buffer?
2) What functionality is provided by the server and browse buffers
hinted at by the documented "gnus-carpal-server-buffer-buttons" and
"gnus-carpal-browse-buffer-buttons" settings described?
3) What is the difference between a browse buffer and an article buffer?
I thought that the group buffer provided a list of groups, the summary
buffer provided a list of articles, and the article buffer provided the
content of an article; what is the purpose of a browse buffer?
Any further help would be greatly appreciated.
-- Benjamin L. Russell
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