Re: hidden citations not hiding blank lines between citations

["Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Excerpts from mail: (17-Jan-96) Re: hidden citations not hiding blank lines between citations by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
>  Russ Allbery <eagle@cyclone.Stanford.EDU> writes:
>> What I'd prefer is to have each section of the citation replaced with a
>> button of some sort (... is the obvious choice), so that I can click on it
>> to expand that part out (and not have to restart the article from the top
>> or expand out the rest of the citation).
>  How much is a "section", though? Should there be one of these button
> thingies for each paragraph? Or for each person's cited text? Or just
> one button for all cited text?

----------
>>>something
>>>something

>>>something
>>other
>more

Blah.

>>>even more
>more
----------

> Point to where the buttons should go.

Ok, I've seen what other people have responded, and I haven't like what I've
seen a whole lot. So let me give a shot at this. When the citations are
hidden, here is what I think the above should look like:

----------
[...]

Blah.

[...]
----------

Note: I strongly prefer "[...]" to "..." for the buttons. As to what it
should look like when one or more citations are unhidden, here's one
possibility: make the the first citation tag into the button that collapses
that section of citations. Example:

----------
[>>>]something1
>>>something2

>>>something3
>>other
>more

Blah.

[>>>]even more
>more
----------

Here the strings ">>>" on the ">>>something1" line and the ">>>even more"
line are button that would collapse there respections citation sections. (The
brackets wouldn't be visible. I've just put them in there to show where the
buttons would go.) Clicking on both of these buttons would result in an
article buffer that looks like the first example where all citations have
been hidden.

Now, someone out there had the suggestion that it would be nice if Gnus would
only hide citations with more than x number of lines and optionally be able
to display the first n lines of such a citation. I think this would a
marvelous idea! Example:

Original article text:
----------
>>>long citation1
>>>long citation2
>>>long citation3
>>>long citation4
>>>long citation5
>>>long citation6
>>>long citation7

Blah.

>>different citation1
>>different citation2
>>different citation3
>>different citation4

Blah.

>yet another citation

Blah.
----------

Here's how I think this should look after hiding the relevant portions:
(example uses x = 3, n = 2 (x and n defined above)):
----------
>>>long citation1
>>>long citation2
[...]

Blah.

>>different citation1
>>different citation2
[...]

Blah.

>yet another citation

Blah.
----------

Again, the "[...]" are buttons that would unhide the rest of that citation
section.

Just my $0.02,
Ed