* bug#44707: 27.1; Add gnus-article-date-user user-defined examples
@ 2020-11-17 6:12 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-11-24 8:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2020-11-17 6:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 44707
(info "(gnus) Article Date") says
‘W T s’
Display the date using a user-defined format
(‘gnus-article-date-user’). The format is specified by the
‘gnus-article-time-format’ variable, and is a string that’s passed
to ‘format-time-string’. See the documentation of that variable
for a list of possible format specs.
Without examples the user is a loss at figuring out how to set this.
Maybe one does
(setq gnus-article-date-user "%a, %d ...")
but probably not.
(info "(gnus) User-Defined Specs")
has no examples either. In fact maybe some words are missing... without
examples one cannot be sure.
gnus-article-date-headers is a variable defined in ‘gnus-art.el’.
its docstring seems to say we can do
(set-variable 'gnus-article-date-headers '(user-defined))
Same on (info "(gnus) Customizing Articles")
Maybe we are supposed to do
(set-variable 'gnus-article-date-headers '("%a, %d...")) but that
triggers an error.
Wait. Let's try
(set-variable 'gnus-article-time-format "%a, %d...")
(set-variable 'gnus-article-date-headers '(user-defined))
Ah, finally I figured out what the docs are trying to say. Wish they
added an example.
Alas, not only does doing that correctly affect W T s itself,
but it also affects all the other W T's!
emacs-version "27.1"
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* bug#44707: 27.1; Add gnus-article-date-user user-defined examples
2020-11-17 6:12 bug#44707: 27.1; Add gnus-article-date-user user-defined examples 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
@ 2020-11-24 8:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2020-11-24 8:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson; +Cc: 44707
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> (info "(gnus) Article Date") says
>
> ‘W T s’
> Display the date using a user-defined format
> (‘gnus-article-date-user’). The format is specified by the
> ‘gnus-article-time-format’ variable, and is a string that’s passed
> to ‘format-time-string’. See the documentation of that variable
> for a list of possible format specs.
>
> Without examples the user is a loss at figuring out how to set this.
>
> Maybe one does
> (setq gnus-article-date-user "%a, %d ...")
> but probably not.
The manual describes a command: `W T s', so I'm not sure why you're:
> (set-variable 'gnus-article-date-headers '(user-defined))
In any case, `gnus-article-date-user' has a default value that is pretty
self-explanatory.
Closing.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2020-11-24 8:39 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2020-11-17 6:12 bug#44707: 27.1; Add gnus-article-date-user user-defined examples 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-11-24 8:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.