How to adjust the windows configuration?
Benjamin L. Russell
configuration to a three-panel layout with the group buffer on the
*upper*-left, the summary buffer on the top-right, and the article
buffer on the *bottom*, given the following code?
> ; Customize the windows configuration to a three-panel layout: group buffer on the left, summary buffer on the top-right, and article buffer on the bottom-right
> (gnus-add-configuration
> '(article
> (horizontal 1.0
> (vertical 25
> (group 1.0))
> (vertical 1.0
> (summary 0.25 point)
> (article 1.0)))))
> (gnus-add-configuration
> '(summary
> (horizontal 1.0
> (vertical 25
> (group 1.0))
> (vertical 1.0
> (summary 1.0 point)))))
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Dimitri Fontaine
> Could somebody please describe how to customize the windows
> configuration to a three-panel layout with the group buffer on the
> *upper*-left, the summary buffer on the top-right, and the article
> buffer on the *bottom*, given the following code?
Here's what I have, not sure it is even adapted from the manual:
(gnus-add-configuration
'(article
(vertical 1.0
(horizontal 8
(group 50)
(summary 1.0 point) )
(horizontal 1.0
(article 1.0)))))
(gnus-add-configuration
'(summary
(vertical 1.0
(horizontal 1.0
(group 50)
(summary 1.0 point)
(if gnus-carpal
'(summary-carpal 4))))))
Regards,
--
dim
Benjamin L. Russell
Thank you very much for your response.
Based on your code, I have customized the relevant portion of my .gnu.el
file and commented thereof to describe the functionality of each line
therein, as follows:
> ; Toggle "gnus-carpal" settings; i.e., display of mouse-clickable buttons to control navigation
> (setq gnus-carpal t) ; turn on mouse button-based navigation
> ;; The following section controls the layout after displaying the article buffer
> ; change the configuration of a single buffer setting, without using the complicated gnus-buffer-configuration variable (see "Frequently Asked Questions: Window Layout" at http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_295.html)
> (gnus-add-configuration
> ; configure the article buffer
> '(article
> ; split the screen in two vertically, and use the following settings for the upper half of the window
> (vertical 1.0
> ; the original number of rows for the group + summary buffers together, copied from "Frequently Asked Questions: FAQ 4 - Reading messages" (http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_400.html#SEC473)
> (horizontal 28
> ; the original number of columns for the group buffer width setting, copied from "Frequently Asked Questions: FAQ 4 - Reading messages" (http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_400.html#SEC473)
> ; (group 50)
> ; setting of the number of columns for the group buffer width setting to match my settings in Forte' Agent 5.0
> ; (group 53)
> ; setting of the number of columns for the group buffer width setting to display all newsgroup names without truncation
> (group 77)
> ; let the summary buffer take the remainder of the width of the rows, and position the point (cursor) therein
> (summary 1.0 point) )
> ; let the lower half take up the remainder of the horizontal space, and apply the following settings therein
> (horizontal 1.0
> ; let the article buffer take up the entire space of the lower half of the window
> (article 1.0)))))
> ;; The following section controls the layout after displaying the group and summary buffers only (i.e., before displaying the article buffer)
> ; change the configuration of a single buffer setting, without using the complicated gnus-buffer-configuration variable (see "Frequently Asked Questions: Window Layout" at http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_295.html)
> (gnus-add-configuration
> ; configure the summary buffer
> '(summary
> ; split the screen in two vertically, and use the following settings for the upper half of the window (unless the lower half is specified separately as above, here, the upper half may take up all the vertical space of the window)
> (vertical 1.0
> ; split the window horizontally, and take up whatever space is available for the following settings
> (horizontal 1.0
> ;; ; the original number of columns for the group buffer width setting, copied from "Frequently Asked Questions: FAQ 4 - Reading messages" (http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_400.html#SEC473)
> ;; (group 50)
> ;; ; setting of the number of columns for the group buffer width setting to match my setting in Forte' Agent 5.0
> ;; (group 53)
> ; setting of the number of columns for the group buffer width setting to display all newsgroup names without truncation
> (group 77)
> ; let the summary buffer take the remainder of the width of the rows, and position the point (cursor) therein
> (summary 1.0 point)))))
Now my layout is configured as below:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| Group Buffer | Summary Buffer |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| Article Buffer |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The only remaining difficulty is the correct specification of the
"group-carpal" and "summary-carpal" variables with the "gnus-carpal"
variable set to t.
The "gnus-carpal" variable toggles enabling display of buttons to click
for a given buffer; e.g., with "gnus-carpal" set to t, one can then
enable specification of "summary-carpal 4" to dedicate 4 columns to
display of summary-carpal buttons for the summary buffer, "group-carpal
4" to dedicate 4 columns to display of group-carpal buttons for the
group buffer, etc.
Unfortunately, even with "gnus-carpal" set to t as above, the following
code snippet only displays the "summary-carpal" buttons in a narrow
4-column area immediately to the right of the summary buffer:
> (gnus-add-configuration
> '(summary
> (vertical 1.0
> (horizontal 1.0
> (group 50)
> (summary 1.0 point)
> (if gnus-carpal
> '(summary-carpal 4))))))
The buttons are impossible to read in this configuration.
Therefore, if possible, I would additionally prefer to specify 4 *rows*
of the "summary-carpal" buttons immediately below the summary buffer,
and a matching 4 *rows* of "group-carpal" buttons immediately below the
group buffer, with perhaps another 4 *rows" of "???????-carpal" buttons
(the term, if it exists, for the article-related buttons is not clear
from the online documentation at "Gnus 5.1 Manual - Various" (see
http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/use/info/gnus/gnus_8.html))
immediately below the article buffer; thusly:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | |
| | |
| | |
| Group Buffer | Summary Buffer |
| | |
| | |
| | |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Group-carpal | Summary-carpal |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | |
| | |
| | |
| Article Buffer |
| | |
| | |
| | |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| ???????-carpal |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Would anybody know how to specify *rows*, instead of *columns*, for the
"group-carpal" and "summary-carpal" sections above, and how to configure
the "???????-carpal" section as above?
Additionally, the following related issues are not clear:
1) What term should be substituted for "???????" in the above-described
"???????-carpal" term for button functionality for the article buffer?
2) What functionality is provided by the server and browse buffers
hinted at by the documented "gnus-carpal-server-buffer-buttons" and
"gnus-carpal-browse-buffer-buttons" settings described?
3) What is the difference between a browse buffer and an article buffer?
I thought that the group buffer provided a list of groups, the summary
buffer provided a list of articles, and the article buffer provided the
content of an article; what is the purpose of a browse buffer?
Any further help would be greatly appreciated.
Benjamin L. Russell
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> Based on your code, I have customized the relevant portion of my .gnu.el
> file....
s/.gnu.el .gnus.el
Apologies.