From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54480 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sigurd@12move.de (Karl =?iso-8859-1?q?Pfl=E4sterer?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Missing washing function Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:51:46 +0100 Organization: Lemis World Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067302396 12406 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 00:53:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:53:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3021@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 28 01:53:14 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 1AEI6k-0001St-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:53:14 +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 1AEI6e-0005MA-00; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:53:08 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AEI6a-0005M5-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:53:04 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CF73A0050 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:53:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEI6Z-0005ux-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:53:03 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: wintendo.pflaesterer.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p62.246.37.142.tisdip.tiscali.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1067302383 22695 62.246.37.142 (28 Oct 2003 00:53:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:53:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: #iIcL\6>Qj/G*F@AL9T*v/R$j@7Q`6#FU&Flg6u6aVsLdWf(H$U5>:;&*>oy>jOIWgA%8w* A!V7X`\fEGoQ[@D'@i^*p3FCC6&Rg~JT/H_*MOX;"o~flADb8^ Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Hamster/2.0.3.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:SDeZMKdY9vhnGgImVq+9QuUKp5U= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54480 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54480 On 25 Oct 2003, Karl Eichwalder <- ke@gnu.franken.de wrote: > It happens quite often that people send "flowed" messages, but failed to > declare them properly (I'll attach such a message - I hope Emacs will > not strip the SPCs at the end of the lines). Run `W w' on such a > message will fill it nicely, but it will not determine paragraphs ends > properly (after "Preface", after "worldwide access.", etc.). Lines to > be flowed together end with a SPC, paragraph ends end with a non-SPC > character. > I'd like to propose to make the washing function add an additional at > the end of an paragraph. I wrote some time ago about the same problem in the german gnus NG. I had first written a new washing function which treated an article as format=flowed; afterwards I saw that `W Q' (`gnus-article-fill-long-lines') does a good job there. Try it first. KP -- If you have nothing to say on a subject, replying with a line such as, "I agree with this." puts you in the TO:'s for all future messages, and establishes you as "one who really cares", if not an actual expert, on the topic at hand. -- from the Symbolics Guidelines for Sending Mail