Change default behavior of gnus-summary-pipe-output?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Hi all,

There was a bug report recently about the behavior of the output-to-pipe
article command in Gnus (bound to "|"), which by default sends the
treated article to the pipe/process, not the raw article. This was
breaking the direct application of some git patches, because the
treatment was inserting newlines where they didn't belong.

The solution[0] was to use the symbolic prefix "M-i r" before running
the "|" command. That switches to sending the raw article instead. This
is the only article output command that allows the user to toggle
raw/treated.

It seems like piping the raw article should be the default, instead.
That ought to reduce the likelihood that users would run into the
symbolic prefix, too, which I have to assume many people don't know
about and don't use.

So my survey is two part:

1. What do you think about changing the default behavior of the output
to pipe command to use the raw article?
2. How many of you are aware of Gnus' symbolic prefixes, and make use of
them? Looks like only 11 commands use it, mostly around sorting groups,
and a couple of scoring commands.

Thanks!
Eric


[0] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=66450#8