gfp <g...@posteo.at> writes: > But opening gnus > there was no change in my summary buffer. > May be, because this is the default.
Very likely, yes. > it looks like this: > > [ 31: Bill H ] Re: Freeze extension? > [ 39: Alan K. ] > [ 11: Nil ] There is really a person existing named "Nil"? > How can I add the date at the end of the lines, > in order to know when it was sent? > > In the manual it says: > add: d for the Date in DD-MMM format. > add: o for the Date in YYYYMMDD format. > T in HHMMSS format: > What does HHMMSS format mean? Hours, Minutes and seconds? > I would like the format: DD-MMM-YYYY > Is that possible? Everything is possible. > What do I have to change in the > gnus-summary-buffer-line? > (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n") I really would like that you consider to use the "%&user-date;" specifier. This allows to display a time for messages from today, a weekday name for messages from the last couple of days, and a date for older mails - i.e. the time format depends on the age of a message. This is very useful most of the time. There is an example here: (info "(gnus) FAQ 4-14") Maybe you want to start playing with this example, and then we have a look what format you prefer at the end. The user date can be configured by setting `gnus-user-date-format-alist'. So please play around with the format a bit first to get a feeling for what you want. At the end you can just permute the elements of gnus-summary-line-format but we have to be careful with spaces and indentation and this stuff, this is a bit tricky. And, I don't recall, but it is possible that `gnus-summary-line-format' is not consulted every time you start Gnus, or there are buffer local bindings that are not affected if you change the default value. So if your setting doesn't seem to have an effect: this is the reason. Michael.
