Re: Can I shorten up this or other NG names?

reread the post and think this time

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"Vanguard" <vanguard.code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "AlmostBob" <anonymous1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OmZawpu%23FHA.1676@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > because in most windows software versions regardless of manufacturer
> > (eudora
> > does too) the display name is sent to the servers as the newsgroup name
> > however under other operating systems there are two variables assigned
to
> > newsgroups, server names and display names, the same as for mail
accounts
> > of course the actual variable names in unix and SunOS may not be
> > displayname
> > and servername
> >
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> > "Vanguard" <vanguard.code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:OVN4GYu%23FHA.228@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> "Steve Cochran" <scochran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:OdzlJCq%23FHA.3568@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Not in current versions of Windows.
> >>
> >>
> >> What does Windows have to do with how a program is coded for display a
> >> non-wrapped string within window or frame?
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
> The application dictates how it displays strings. Doesn't matter how the
> string was determined. The app that provides an overly short frame in
which
> to display the string ends up truncating it. In OE, the user could widen
> the tree pane but that wastes a lot of screen space, so hovering the mouse
> over the truncated name provides the workaround to showing long strings
> without having to resort to line wrapping.
>
> The application decides how to display the string within its own windows,
> not Windows. If you put a long line in Notepad, it also gets truncated
> within the current view which will then use scrollbars to let you slide
left
> and right, or you could enable line-wrap, but again the scrollbar and
> line-wrap are how the *application* decides on handling the overly long
> line.
>
> Like Ron mentioned, you could change the view so the pane in which the
> newsgroups title strings are displayed is wider (but it is still possible
> for a newgroup title to exceed the width of the pane, especially if OE is
> not maximized). If you use the leftside folder view, you can widen it at
> the expense of screen space for the header pane and preview pane. You
could
> hover the mouse over the newsgroup title to get a popover showing the
longer
> string. All of these are still whatever the *application* decided to give
> you to display strings in its display, not by MS Windows.
>
> The OP wanted shorter strings displayed for the newgroup titles. Nothing
to
> do with querying the NNTP server. Also, the newsgroup titles are the
> newsgroup names, not the server name. Why would you bring up the server?
> The same newsgroups are handled by lots of NNTP servers, and they have the
> SAME names. Imagine trying to find the same newsgroup on a different NNTP
> server but which foolishly used a different name for the newsgroup. In
> Thunderbird, I believe, it will abbreviate the newsgroup names. For
> example, microsoft.public.outlook.general probably looks like
m.p.o.general.
> I don't think it has the popover help of OE to then expand the name so you
> could see what m.p.o stood for. As I recall, I had to edit some .css
config
> file to get Thunderbird to knock off the auto-abbreviation since it made
> difficult knowing in which I was in that had the same abbreviation.
Again,
> the abbreviation in Thunderbird for the newsgroup titles is, well, for the
> newsgroup titles, not the server name which is a totally different entity
> altogether.
>


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