Re: Display BBDB sender names in Gnus

[davidandrewrogers]

Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net> writes:

> On Sun, 07 Jun 2020, David Rogers writes:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I'm using BBDB with Gnus, and I'd like to find a way to
> > force the Gnus summary to show each person's name as
> > listed in their BBDB entry, instead of displaying
> > whatever is in the "From" line of their message.
> >
> > Is there a reasonable/simple way that I can do that?
>
> I *think* that you can use a user-defined
> 'gnus-summary-line-format' [*], and in it the
> specification '%uB' should give you the name as stored
> in the BBDB.
>
>
>
> [*] 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Summary-Buffer-Lines.html#Summary-Buffer-Lines


I had already had this in my .gnus.el, and believed that it 
couldn't be the right solution because it wasn't working. However, 
once I corrected my own stupid mistake in the syntax, it does work 
correctly. Thank you!

--
David