From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55059 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [flow-fill.el] Filling of quoted blank lines Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:00:36 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070388070 11582 80.91.224.253 (2 Dec 2003 18:01:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:01:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3598@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 02 19:01:07 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AREpf-0003Wc-00 for ; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:01:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AREpV-0003CW-00; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:00:57 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AREpN-0003CQ-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:00:49 -0600 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBEF83A0037 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:00:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from latte (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB2I0lrh007907 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 19:00:48 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:031202:ding@gnus.org:b85ca6915d8c7727 X-Hashcash: 0:031202:ding@gnus.org:b85ca6915d8c7727 In-Reply-To: (Ralf Angeli's message of "Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:35:33 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55059 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55059 Ralf Angeli writes: > Hello everybody, > > there are quite some people out there using Mozilla with > `format=flowed' enabled. This is handled nicely by `flow-fill.el' > except when it comes to quoted blank lines. Mozilla is quoting them > with `> \n' where `flow-fill.el' sees soft line breaks at the end. The > lines are filled and disappear. You can have a look at an example in > comp.text.tex; the MID is . > Compare the display of the message using `C-u g' and `g'. In the > latter case some lines are missing. I could not find that MID, but I found another message that looked like: > > foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar > foo bar This was rendered by Gnus as: > foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo > bar > foo bar (This message should illustrate this.) This is suboptimal, but I believe it is compliant given the weird input. Is this what you mean by "disappear"? > I looked into `flow-fill.el' and made some changes which now take > lines with `> ' into account and won't fill them. They are attached > at the bottom of this article. I am not sure if I understood the code > correctly so there might be some changes needed in the respective > regular expressions. I applied the patch, but the above message looked the same. Perhaps there are two separate problems.