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From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: "Colin Baxter 😺" <m43cap@yandex.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>, ,
	help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>,
	Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: timeanddateformats, was: why is the star in front of every info item sometimes black and sometimes red?
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 20:51:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86h7bgxmpy.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y24s6z9c.fsf@yandex.com> (Colin Baxter's message of "Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:22:39 +0000")

Colin Baxter 😺 <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

>>>>>> H Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>     > Colin Baxter 😺 <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
>     >>>>>>> H Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>     >> 
>     >> > Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes: >> The highlighted
>     >> stars are there to help the people who like to >> use the keys
>     >> 1..9 to navigate info manuals.
>     >> 
>     >> > You nailed it.
>     >> 
>     >> > Note: Blather to come ;-)
>     >> 
>     >> > A far fetched analogy is writing dates in a form like 20211210.
>     >> > For me it's hard to discern whether the date starts by the year
>     >> > and then where month or days begin.  I'm annoyed when some >
>     >> colleagues do not use the visually supporting form: 2021-12-10 >
>     >> (actually this form is recommended by standard ISO 8601).
>     >> 
>     >> Don't forget about dates like 20211210T175343 in gnus :-)
>
>     > Sorry, where do you see that?!  Maybe I configured above format
>     > away and forgot about it.
>
> I think gnus info suggests
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>  (setq gnus-group-line-format "%M\%S\%p\%P\%5y: %(%-40,40g%) %d\n")
> #+end_src
>
> for nndiary.
>
> It's my very poor joke.

The joke is good! :-)

And thank you for nndiary it's an interesting concept, good to know.

    Dieter
-- 
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany



  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-10 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-10  0:31 Why is the star in front of every info item sometimes black and sometimes red? Hongyi Zhao
2021-12-10  0:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-10  0:54   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-12-10  1:04     ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-12-10  1:14       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-12-10 17:31       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-12-10 17:59         ` Colin Baxter 😺
2021-12-10 18:16           ` timeanddateformats, was: why " H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-12-10 19:22             ` Colin Baxter 😺
2021-12-10 19:51               ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2021-12-11 19:35               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-12  9:23                 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-12-12 11:18                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-11 19:33           ` Why " Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-11 19:30         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-10  1:10     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-10  3:43       ` Hongyi Zhao

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