Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- BOFH excuse #174: Backbone adjustment _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
