From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48860 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip over the rest of the article if it contains no useful content Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 19:31:46 +1100 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87of6tcqdp.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> References: <87isx1wq23.fsf@mulligatwani.msrl.com> <873co5fu6a.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> <87adidwot2.fsf@mulligatwani.msrl.com> <87vg11v4yn.fsf@mulligatwani.msrl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041928327 28978 80.91.224.249 (7 Jan 2003 08:32:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 08:32:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Vp9Z-0007X0-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 09:32:05 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18Vp9r-0005RF-00; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 02:32:23 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 07 Jan 2003 02:33:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA10017 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 02:33:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12160 invoked by alias); 7 Jan 2003 08:32:07 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12155 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2003 08:32:07 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO enki.rimspace.net) (203.217.29.45) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 7 Jan 2003 08:32:07 -0000 Original-Received: by enki.rimspace.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 75BF210F104; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:31:46 +1100 (EST) Original-To: Michael Shields In-Reply-To: <87vg11v4yn.fsf@mulligatwani.msrl.com> (Michael Shields's message of "Tue, 07 Jan 2003 06:39:28 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.5 (brussels sprouts, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48860 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48860 On Tue, 07 Jan 2003, Michael Shields wrote: > In article , > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: >> Well, the feature should default to "off", which means that the user >> would have to tinker somewhat with `gnus-article-boring-faces' to >> switch it on. It would be more convenient to have another nil/t >> variable to switch the feature off/on. > > Ok; how does this look? [...] > +(defcustom gnus-article-skip-boring nil > + "Skip over text that is not worth reading. > +By default, if you set this t, then Gnus will display citations and > +signatures, but will never scroll down to show you a page consisting > +only of boring text. It looks fine to me. I didn't look beyond this point, though. :) Daniel -- It is rather ridiculous to ask a man just about to be boiled in a pot and eaten, at a purely religious feast, why he does not regard all religions as equally friendly and fraternal. -- _The Everlasting Man_, 1925