From: "Colin Baxter 😺" <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
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 19:22:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y24s6z9c.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86tufgxr4o.fsf_-_@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (H. Dieter Wilhelm's message of "Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:16:07 +0100")
>>>>> 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.
Best wishes,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-10 19:22 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 😺 [this message]
2021-12-10 19:51 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
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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