Showing who it was sent to in gnus summary buffer

Showing who it was sent to in gnus summary buffer

[Sharon Kimble]

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How can I have every email that I've sent using 'gnus' be displayed in
its 'nnfolder+archive:sent.2016' folder showing who it was sent *to*
instead of the current =from= in the summary buffer please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: Showing who it was sent to in gnus summary buffer

[Emanuel Berg]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> How can I have every email that I've sent using
> 'gnus' be displayed in its
> 'nnfolder+archive:sent.2016' folder showing who it
> was sent *to* instead of the current =from= in the
> summary buffer please?

Look for an %F in `gnus-summary-line-format' and
change it into %f.

Try this:

    (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%*%U%3{%R%} %I%0{%f%} %1{%s%}\n")

Or the default: "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"

Docstring of `gnus-summary-line-format':

    The format specification of the lines in the
    summary buffer.

    [...]

    %F          Contents of the From: header (string)
    %f          Contents of the From: or To: headers (string)

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Re: Showing who it was sent to in gnus summary buffer

[Sharon Kimble]

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Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:
>
>> How can I have every email that I've sent using
>> 'gnus' be displayed in its
>> 'nnfolder+archive:sent.2016' folder showing who it
>> was sent *to* instead of the current =from= in the
>> summary buffer please?
>
> Look for an %F in `gnus-summary-line-format' and
> change it into %f.
>
> Try this:
>
>     (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%*%U%3{%R%} %I%0{%f%} %1{%s%}\n")

Thanks, this is what I tried -

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
     gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z %(%&user-date;  %-15,15f  %B (%c) %s%)\n"
     ;; gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z %(%&user-date;  %-15,15(%f%)  %B (%c) %s%)\n"
     ;; gnus-summary-line-format "%*%U%3{%R%} %I%0{%f%} %1{%s%}\n"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The first line is what I'm using now.
The second line failed with showing every email in a mess on the screen,
which was totally unusable or readable.
The third line displayed everything except the dates which is what I'm
needing.

What I'm looking for is date, email name that the mail has been sent to,
similar to what is showing in the summary of *Summary
nnml:help-gnu-emacs*, except in my sent mail folders - one for each year
that I've used gnu for [2014-2016].

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: Showing who it was sent to in gnus summary buffer

[Emanuel Berg]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> The third line displayed everything [...]

I agree the third line is good :)

> except the dates which is what I'm needing

The help for `gnus-summary-line-format' says:

    %D  Date of the article (string)
    %d  Date of the article (string) in DD-MMM format
    %o  Date of the article (string) in YYYYMMDD`T'HHMMSS format

Of these, I'd say %o is something a computer or
autistic genius would parse, so try %D and %d, as in:

    (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%*%U%3{%R%} %I%0{%f%} %1{%s%} %D\n")

If you wonder what the %1{ ... %} are, it is to set
the face to `gnus-face-1' and so on. So how good it
looks depends what colors those faces are set to, and
what those colors are. If you think it could look
good, then I guess it should.

By the way, the 0 can probably be removed as %{ ... %}
defaults to 0, i.e. `gnus-face-0' which is `bold'
by default.

The rest of the comic-book insult is explained in the
help for `gnus-summary-line-format'.

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