gnus: Diary Summary Line Format
6.8.2.1 Diary Summary Line Format
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Displaying diary messages in standard summary line format (usually
something like ‘From Joe: Subject’) is pretty useless. Most of the
time, you’re the one who wrote the message, and you mostly want to see
the event’s date.
‘gnus-diary’ provides two supplemental user formats to be used in
summary line formats. ‘D’ corresponds to a formatted time string for
the next occurrence of the event (e.g., “Sat, Sep 22 01, 12:00”), while
‘d’ corresponds to an approximate remaining time until the next
occurrence of the event (e.g., “in 6 months, 1 week”).
For example, here’s how Joe’s birthday is displayed in my
‘nndiary+diary:birthdays’ summary buffer (note that the message is
expirable, but will never be deleted, as it specifies a periodic event):
E Sat, Sep 22 01, 12:00: Joe's birthday (in 6 months, 1 week)
In order to get something like the above, you would normally add the
following line to your diary groups’parameters:
(gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z %uD: %(%s%) (%ud)\n")
However, ‘gnus-diary’ does it automatically (
Diary Group
Parameters). You can however customize the provided summary line
format with the following user options:
-- Variable: gnus-diary-summary-line-format
Defines the summary line format used for diary groups (
Summary Buffer Lines). ‘gnus-diary’ uses it to automatically
update the diary groups’parameters.
-- Variable: gnus-diary-time-format
Defines the format to display dates in diary summary buffers. This
is used by the ‘D’ user format. See the docstring for details.
-- Variable: gnus-diary-delay-format-function
Defines the format function to use for displaying delays (remaining
times) in diary summary buffers. This is used by the ‘d’ user
format. There are currently built-in functions for English and
French; you can also define your own. See the docstring for
details.
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