Stop autowashing html

Stop autowashing html

[James Cloos]

It used to be the case that setting gnus-treat-wash-html nil would
prevent automatic decoding of html parts.

Then, as announced here, that capability was deliberately disabled.

I often get hit by messages with html which shr is unable to decode in
reasonable time or space.  (Yesterday, one took more than a 20 minutes
and a Gig of VM -- bringing the emacs process over 2G -- before I
returned to the workstation, saw what was happening, and hit C-g.)

Is there any chance of fixing that change?  Manual washing with Wh is
vastly better than the current situation.

Or will I have to maintain a local fork?

Another fairly recent annoyance is the insistence of adding the sent and
archive groups to the current *Group* view every time an outgoing is
started.  I set them at a high level to keep them *out* of the current
group view.  It never helps the UI and only ever leads to annoyance.
I certainly *never* want to leave the last group in a view and end up
in the drafts group just because I happened to reply along the way.
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-JimC
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Re: Stop autowashing html

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:

> I often get hit by messages with html which shr is unable to decode in
> reasonable time or space.  (Yesterday, one took more than a 20 minutes
> and a Gig of VM -- bringing the emacs process over 2G -- before I
> returned to the workstation, saw what was happening, and hit C-g.)

That sounds like an infloop bug in shr.  A couple of those have been
fixed lately.

> Is there any chance of fixing that change?  Manual washing with Wh is
> vastly better than the current situation.
>
> Or will I have to maintain a local fork?

`C-u g' will show you the raw article.

> Another fairly recent annoyance is the insistence of adding the sent and
> archive groups to the current *Group* view every time an outgoing is
> started.  I set them at a high level to keep them *out* of the current
> group view.  It never helps the UI and only ever leads to annoyance.
> I certainly *never* want to leave the last group in a view and end up
> in the drafts group just because I happened to reply along the way.

Yeah, I'm not sure that's a good change.  I'm not sure why this was
done -- anybody remember?

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