fixing Outlook/OE etc. quoting

fixing Outlook/OE etc. quoting

[Steinar Bang]

I thought at one point I saw something about an article washing thing
that would undo that horrible OE/Outlook way of quoting articles
(ie. put the reply at the start, and yank in all of the article
responded to after the reply).

I tried finding it today in the Gnus docs and by grepping through the
elisp code, but I couldn't find anything.

I'm wondering if I did misunderstand gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes or
there if really is something like that?

Re: fixing Outlook/OE etc. quoting

[Arcady Genkin]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> I thought at one point I saw something about an article washing thing
> that would undo that horrible OE/Outlook way of quoting articles
> (ie. put the reply at the start, and yank in all of the article
> responded to after the reply).

Look for articles from Paul Stevenson and Jonas Steverud from March
24,25 on this list.  I've forwarded them to you in private.
-- 
Arcady Genkin                                 
Don't read everything you believe.

Re: fixing Outlook/OE etc. quoting

[Florian Weimer]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> I'm wondering if I did misunderstand gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes or
> there if really is something like that?

"Dumb quotes" are quote signs from the Windows-1252 charset which are
control characters in ISO 8859-1.

Regarding the comb quoting (this is called "Kammquoting" in Denglisch),
I would be interested in a solution, too.

Re: fixing Outlook/OE etc. quoting

[Henrik Hansen]

Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> wrote:

 > Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
 > 
 > > I thought at one point I saw something about an article washing thing
 > > that would undo that horrible OE/Outlook way of quoting articles
 > > (ie. put the reply at the start, and yank in all of the article
 > > responded to after the reply).
 > 
 > Look for articles from Paul Stevenson and Jonas Steverud from March
 > 24,25 on this list.  I've forwarded them to you in private.

the function should be 'added' to a hook right? but which one?

or does the function work with just insertion in .gnus? (don't think so)

-- 
Henrik Hansen
hh at mailserver.dk