Re: adding date to the summary buffer

[Eric S Fraga]

Response below/inline for email gfp wrote:
> (original email sent 21 Jan 2025 at 16:08)
> 
> Hi all,
>
> thanks very much for helping me.
> I tried every hint from all of you and checked what it looks like.
>
>> My advice was in
>>> particular to have a look at the description for the variable which
>>> defines the format of the summary line,
>>> M-x describe-variable RET gnus-summary-line-format RET
>
> I read also that.
>
> What does the number -16,16 say?
> │%}%I%(%-16,16f%)

>From the description of the variable, which gives all the directives
allowed:

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

The numbers (between the % and the f) specify minimum and maximum length
for that field and the -indicates that the contents to be padded to the
right (so left justified).  You can find a description of this in
section "Formatting Basics" of the gnus info manual.

The %( ... %) indicate that mouse-face property should be used for the
enclosed text; this is described in section "Formatting Fonts" of the
gnus info manual.

There's a lot in the formatting section of the gnus manual, too much to
absorb all at once (or even ever...).
-- 
Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 31.0.50 2025-01-06) on Debian 12.8