Next: Summary Highlighting, Previous: To From Newsgroups, Up: Summary Buffer Format

#### 3.1.3 Summary Buffer Mode Line

You can also change the format of the summary mode bar (see Mode Line Formatting). Set `gnus-summary-mode-line-format` to whatever you like. The default is ‘`Gnus: %%b [%A] %Z`’.

Here are the elements you can play with:

‘`G`’
  Group name.
‘`p`’
  Unprefixed group name.
‘`A`’
  Current article number.
‘`z`’
  Current article score.
‘`V`’
  Gnus version.
‘`U`’
  Number of unread articles in this group.
‘`e`’
  Number of unread articles in this group that aren't displayed in the summary buffer.
‘`Z`’
  A string with the number of unread and unselected articles represented either as ‘`<%U(+%e) more>`’ if there are both unread and unselected articles, and just as ‘`<%U more>`’ if there are just unread articles and no unselected ones.
‘`g`’
  Shortish group name. For instance, ‘`rec.arts.anime`’ will be shortened to ‘`r.a.anime`’.
‘`S`’
  Subject of the current article.
‘`u`’
  User-defined spec (see User-Defined Specs).
‘`s`’
  Name of the current score file (see Scoring).
‘`d`’
  Number of dormant articles (see Unread Articles).
‘`t`’
  Number of ticked articles (see Unread Articles).
‘`r`’
  Number of articles that have been marked as read in this session.
‘`E`’
  Number of articles expunged by the score files.