Subject Buffer

Subject buffer is for listing subjects and other important headers of articles. The major mode of the buffer is Subject Mode. The buffer is created for each newsgroup when the newsgroup is selected in the Newsgroup buffer.

The contents of a Subject buffer looks something like the following:

S NUMBER:C[LINES:AUTHOR] SUBJECT

S

A character indicating whether an article is newly arrived. ` ' means the article is newly arrived. `D' means it was read and marked so. `-' means it was read once but marked as unread again.

NUMBER

The number assigned to the article.

C

A character indicating which article is currently selected. `+' is placed on the current article.

LINES

The number of lines of the article body.

AUTHOR

Mail address of the author of the article.

SUBJECT

Subject of the article.

Strings between `[' and `]' are optional, and can be customized using the variable gnus-optional-headers. See section Common Variables, and see section Function Hooks, for more information on customization.