configurable search view, threadline formatting

[quite]

I would like to be able to configure search view; the order which items appear, item maximum (and possibly fixed) width. A tentative approach to configuration, which would make current authors_maxlength and display_content_in_threadline options obsolete:

search_threads_format = date,count,tags,authors<30,subject,content

"<30" meaning keep length of this item at 30 characters or less (like current authors_maxlength=30)
(ok, if it's slightly non-mathematical, maybe "<31" should be the equivalent of authors_maxlength=30 :)

"=30" would mean to keep this item fixed at 30 characters.

I thought that the choice of alignment (left or right) could be left for the code to make reasonable decisions about.

Thoughts on this?

[pazz]

cf #23 and #24

[quite]

Yes I have read those, I was thinking about the configuration now.... But maybe its waste of time, and a pure columnbased layout that adapts each columns to its widest row would solve everything without need for customization, except order and perhaps some kind of weight.

[pazz]

no? i thought you overlooked those. i agree that we do need such a configurable threadline at some point.
have you seen the hook idea in #23 ? we could also come up with some format for the config as you suggest
and make a custom validator check for this..

[pazz]

took a while, and is not completely ready yet: (tags and docs missing) but
https://github.com/pazz/alot/tree/0.3.1-theming