Re: Unicode box-drawing chars

[Jesper Harder]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>> Yeah, I use them to make a nice summary buffer in Gnus, e.g.
>>
>>     Kai Großjohann          command.com versus cmd.exe
>>     ├╮ Klaus Berndl            
>>     │╰─╮ Kai Großjohann          
>>     │  ├╮ Klaus Berndl            
>>     │  ╰─╮ lawrence mitchell       
>>     ╰─╮ Zhongtao Zhu    
>
> Drool.
>
> [x] send Lisp

It's pretty straight-forward:

(setq gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z %B%-23,23n %s\n")
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "")
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "")
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "├╮ ")
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "│")
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "╰─╮ ")

It's a pitty we can't assume that everyone has a unicode font, so we
could make some attractive defaults in Gnus.  

Hmm, the tree display could probably also be made to look a lot prettier
than today with some box-drawing glyphs.

xpost & fu² gnu.emacs.gnus