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Re: line wrap in the index?

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On Sunday, February  1 at 11:14 PM, quoth Paul E Condon:
> I have several verbose correspondents who write little essays in the 
> Subject header.  If I could put Subject: field last, I could see 
> several fields, like From; that are more important. But these other 
> fields are variable lenth, and that messes up threading, which is 
> keyed to the start of the Subject: field in each line, I think.

...I assume you're talking about index view? Then you probably want to 
set up $index_format.

> But rather than line wrap in the index, is there a way to truncate 
> the print of the subject field?

In the index? Absolutely! The $index_format variable takes printf-like 
length specifications. So, if you wanted to limit the subject (denoted 
by %s in the $index_format) to a mere twenty characters, you'd use 
this: %.20s

That will left-align the subjects. If, on the other hand, you wanted 
to align them all to the right, use this: %20.20s

~Kyle
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