meaning of number of lines in the message (%l in index_format)

Patrick Shanahan paka at opensuse.org
Wed Jun 26 11:18:37 UTC 2019


* Patrick Shanahan <paka at opensuse.org> [06-26-19 07:17]:
> * Daan van Rossum <d.r.vanrossum at gmx.de> [06-26-19 04:27]:
> > * on Wednesday, 2019-06-26 09:13 +0200, Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > > > hard to see the difference between 1.3k and 1.3M at a quick glimpse
> > > > > across the index.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, perhaps the reason I do not use %c. And the fact that the
> > > > scaling facteur is on the right instead of the left makes this
> > > > even harder (that's a bit like the American dates MMDDYYYY).
> > > 
> > > That's mutt_pretty_size(). If we wanted to overengineer this, this
> > > function could be expanded or cloned to be fixed to a certain
> > > granularity (such as k or M). (I'm not making this a feature request.
> > > OTOH, why not craft my own patch? ;-))
> > 
> > I also don't use %c for the same reason.  Fixing the units to 'k' would make me switch to %c instead of %l as well...
> 
> you want units for lines to be multiples or fractions of 1024 rather than
> actual lines?  are the majority of the posts you read >1000 lines?

doh, sorry for noise.  Disregard!

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