gnus: Positioning Point

 
 9.4.6 Positioning Point
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 Gnus usually moves point to a pre-defined place on each line in most
 buffers.  By default, point move to the first colon character on the
 line.  You can customize this behavior in three different ways.
 
    You can move the colon character to somewhere else on the line.
 
    You can redefine the function that moves the point to the colon.  The
 function is called ‘gnus-goto-colon’.
 
    But perhaps the most convenient way to deal with this, if you don’t
 want to have a colon in your line, is to use the ‘%*’ specifier.  If you
 put a ‘%*’ somewhere in your format line definition, Gnus will place
 point there.