[oni-gnus] Make point always move to the ‘:’ after the size

oni-gnus.el

@@ -34,6 +34,24 @@
 (require 'oni-data-dir)
 (require 'sendmail)
 
+(defun oni-gnus-goto-bracket-then-colon ()
+  "Find the first occurrence of [ on the current line and then :.
+The default function ‘gnus-goto-colon' only goes to the first
+colon and then stops there. When there is a date with a time
+involved, it just goes to the time, not the colon after the size
+of the email."
+  (move-beginning-of-line 1)
+  (let ((eol (point-at-eol)))
+    (goto-char (or (text-property-any (point) eol 'gnus-position t)
+		           (progn (search-forward "[" eol t)
+                          (search-forward ":" eol t))
+		           (point)))))
+
+;;; Make sure that repositioning point in Gnus means that first the bracket is
+;;; found and then the following colon, instead of the first colon which is
+;;; possibly one from a time stamp.
+(defalias 'gnus-summary-position-point 'oni-gnus-goto-bracket-then-colon)
+
 (setq gnus-directory (oni-data-dir-locate "News")
       gnus-article-save-directory gnus-directory
       gnus-cache-directory gnus-directory