Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu-cs!att!cbnewsh!ho5cad!wjc From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Displaying recipient in summary and grouping by recipients in VM Message-ID: Date: 21 Aug 89 08:57:49 GMT References: <8908210034.AA01934@sprite.crd.Ge.Com> Sender: bill@cbnewsh.ATT.COM Reply-To: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Distribution: gnu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 In-reply-to: montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com's message of 21 Aug 89 00:34:56 GMT In article <8908210034.AA01934@sprite.crd.Ge.Com> montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes: > Neither does [VM] allow you to format the summary line to show the > recipient. The context diffs against 4.39 at the end of this message > do that. The "%t" string in vm-summary-format will cause VM to find > the primary recipient of the message and place it in the summary line, > instead of the author. Quite handy. What would be even handier would be a % escape that showed the "from" address unless it was me, in which case it would show something about the recipient(s). An even more general sequence would be something like: %!some-function-name-returning-a-string where the named function would get run (delimiting the function name is a tiny syntax problem). Arguments for the function could be some nice list comprised of computed values for the other %-things and perhaps a few relevant buffer objects or whatever else is handy. -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill