From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: a mysterious star on the Gnus firmament Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:20:46 +0100 Message-ID: <86h8bu8v2p.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="217236"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 22 22:21:52 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7Rbr-000uNN-U7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:21:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7Rbq-0008KU-Rv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:21:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7Rba-0008K9-4L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7RbW-0002re-1y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:21:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57232 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7RbS-0002dK-3X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:21:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7RbL-000tom-1r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:21:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Followup-To: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:K2BhSbYox8A3ByZE5EzPAcqRROs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119718 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88465 Archived-At: OK, this must be the silliest problem yet, that I have been unable to solve! Just now, I fell asleep for like ~1s but it was enough for me to accidentally press some buttons while in a Gnus Summary buffer. What happened was, an asterisk (the `*' char) appeared to the right of a single e-mail, at the 2nd position left-to-right (or Emacs buffer column 1, if you will). Inspecting `gnus-summary-line-format', we see that gnus-summary-line-format is a variable defined in `gnus.el'. Its value is "%*%U%3{%R%} %I%1{%f%} %5{%s%} so it would seem the `*' is in the "%R spot"! Further down, it says %R "A" if this article has been replied to, " " otherwise (character) Hm - first, what does that mean? I get it "A" is "replied to" (A for "answered", perhaps), and that " " (i.e. no visible char) means it isn't answered I mean replied to. But what does "(character)" mean? Second, what does the `*' char mean, how did it get there (except for me falling asleep), and how do I remove it? TIA -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573