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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Don't be overzealous when hiding cited text
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:17:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38vi31jn2.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gy8qx6e.fsf@denkblock.local> (Elias Oltmanns's message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:48:25 +0200")

Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de> writes:

> unfortunately, Gnus can get a bit to eager for its own (or anyone's)
> good when asked to hide cited text. Specifically, when there is a block
> of cited text interspersed with one-line comments (no leading or
> trailing blank lines), it will all be neatly folded away since Gnus
> currently assumes a one-line interruption of cited text to be a blank
> line.

Thanks; applied to Ma Gnus.

> Please find below a small patch to gnus-dissect-cited-text to fix this
> issue. Also, since this bug may have rather unpleasant consequences, I'm
> wondering whether this change could also be applied to the stable
> branches that get pulled into point releases of emacs 22 / 23. It is not
> obvious to me which branch in the gnus.git repository is propagated to
> emacs 23, for example.

Emacs 22/23 are dead and will have no new releases.  Emacs 24.1 is in a
regression-only fix state, and this isn't a regression, so it won't show
up in Emacs until 24.3, which will happen in two years time, I guess.

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-10 19:17 UTC|newest]

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2012-03-25 19:48 Elias Oltmanns
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