How to position summary cursor on beginning of subject

[Ivan Kanis]

Hi,

By default the cursor jumps to the first colon:

(defalias 'gnus-summary-position-point 'gnus-goto-colon)

I have disabled the motion for some years. I thought it jumped to the
beginning of the subject before.

Anyway, how do I do that?

Ivan

[Igor Sosa Mayor]

Post by Ivan Kanis
Hi,
(defalias 'gnus-summary-position-point 'gnus-goto-colon)
I have disabled the motion for some years. I thought it jumped to the
beginning of the subject before.
Anyway, how do I do that?

take a look at

,----[ C-h v gnus-summary-line-format RET ]
| gnus-summary-line-format is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
| Its value is
| "%*%z%U%R %~(max-right 17)~(pad-right 17)&user-date; %~(max-right 20)~(pad-right 20)f %B%s\n"
| Original value was
| "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"
|
| Documentation:
| *The format specification of the lines in the summary buffer.
|
| It works along the same lines as a normal formatting string,
| with some simple extensions.
|
| |
| [back]
`----

[Ivan Kanis]

Post by Igor Sosa Mayor

Post by Ivan Kanis
Hi,
(defalias 'gnus-summary-position-point 'gnus-goto-colon)
I have disabled the motion for some years. I thought it jumped to the
beginning of the subject before.
Anyway, how do I do that?

take a look at
,----[ C-h v gnus-summary-line-format RET ]

Thanks. I have changed that variable. Moving to a fix spot does what I
want.

(defun ivan-gnus-forward ()
(move-beginning-of-line 1)
(forward-char 34))

;; moving cursor to subject in summary
(defalias 'gnus-summary-position-point 'ivan-gnus-forward)

Ivan

[Mark Simpson]

The documentation for gnus-summary-line-format includes:

%* If present, indicates desired cursor position
(instead of after first colon).

I have not used it myself - but perhaps this could be used to get what
you want?

Ciao
Mark

[Ivan Kanis]

Post by Mark Simpson
%* If present, indicates desired cursor position
(instead of after first colon).
I have not used it myself - but perhaps this could be used to get what
you want?

It works. Thank you.