Re: timeanddateformats, was: why is the star in front of every info item sometimes black and sometimes red?

["H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

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
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H. Dieter Wilhelm
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