Quoted characters in From: line

Quoted characters in From: line

[Raymond Scholz]

Some people use nicknames in their From: line like:

From: "John \"Foo\" Doe" <john@doe.com>

Gnus currently displays that in the summary buffer as:

John \

RFC822 tells me that quoting with `\' is allowed for quoted-strings
(i.e. strings surrounded by `"'s). I think Gnus is wrong in truncating
the name. This may also apply to other lines in the header.

[Ugh, quoted-printable with =, quoting characters with \, quote
delimiter ", and quoting of citations with >, this confuses me...]

Cheers,
  Ray 

P.S.: Can I switch off the behaviour that message mode thinks, _any_
line beginning with a single word and a colon needs to be
highlighted. Even in the body of the message? (The P.S.: line is an
example of this). Wouldn't it make more sense to restrict this
behaviour by regarding `gnus-visible-headers' f.e.?

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Re: Quoted characters in From: line

[Shenghuo ZHU]

>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Scholz <rscholz@tzi.de> writes:

Raymond> Some people use nicknames in their From: line like:
Raymond> From: "John \"Foo\" Doe" <john@doe.com>

Raymond> Gnus currently displays that in the summary buffer as:

Raymond> John \

[...]

I suspect a bug in mail-utils.el (part of Emacs) causes the problem.
And the bug has been fixed in FSF Emacs 20.4.

-- 
~{VlJ$;p~}

Re: Quoted characters in From: line

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Raymond Scholz <rscholz@tzi.de> writes:

> Some people use nicknames in their From: line like:
> 
> From: "John \"Foo\" Doe" <john@doe.com>
> 
> Gnus currently displays that in the summary buffer as:
> 
> John \
> 
> RFC822 tells me that quoting with `\' is allowed for quoted-strings
> (i.e. strings surrounded by `"'s). I think Gnus is wrong in truncating
> the name. This may also apply to other lines in the header.

You can fix this by setting `gnus-extract-address-components' to
`mail-extract-address-components' instead of
`gnus-extract-address-components'.  From the docs:

gnus-extract-address-components's value is 
gnus-extract-address-components

Documentation:
*Function for extracting address components from a From header.
Two pre-defined function exist: `gnus-extract-address-components',
which is the default, quite fast, and too simplistic solution, and
`mail-extract-address-components', which works much better, but is
slower.

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)

message fontifying (was: Re: Quoted characters in From: line)

[Kai Großjohann]

Raymond Scholz <rscholz@tzi.de> writes:

> P.S.: Can I switch off the behaviour that message mode thinks, _any_
> line beginning with a single word and a colon needs to be
> highlighted. Even in the body of the message? (The P.S.: line is an
> example of this). Wouldn't it make more sense to restrict this
> behaviour by regarding `gnus-visible-headers' f.e.?

Well, message uses font-lock for fontifying in message mode (for
displaying articles, Gnus uses something different), and it is
difficult to tell font-lock to do different things in different areas
of a buffer.

It is a bit annoying, though.  Maybe better fontification of message
buffers could be added to the todo list for the next version?

kai
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A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.