hiding (or abbreviating) long lists of recipients

hiding (or abbreviating) long lists of recipients

[John H Palmieri]

Every now and then, someone sends me and 50 other people email, with
all of our addresses in the "To" field.  I see that if I set
gnus-boring-article-headers and gnus-treat-hide-boring-headers
appropriately, I can completely hide this header.  What I *really*
want, though, is for it to be abbreviated, so that it looks like this:

  To: bozo@clown.com, dubya@whitehouse.gov, ...

Or maybe it could look like this:

  To: [addresses of 51 recipients hidden]

Is this functionality built into gnus?  I'm looking for a variable
that says to abbreviate long lists of recipients in the To field, and
perhaps a customization that controls how many addresses (or lines of
addresses?) appear before the rest are replaced with "...".

If it's not built in, has anyone done something like this with
gnus-part-display-hook?

-- 
J. H. Palmieri                      
Gnus doesn't kill people, Emacs kills people.

Re: hiding (or abbreviating) long lists of recipients

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

John H Palmieri <palmieri@math.washington.edu> writes:

> Every now and then, someone sends me and 50 other people email, with
> all of our addresses in the "To" field.  I see that if I set
> gnus-boring-article-headers and gnus-treat-hide-boring-headers
> appropriately, I can completely hide this header.  What I *really*
> want, though, is for it to be abbreviated, so that it looks like this:
>
>   To: bozo@clown.com, dubya@whitehouse.gov, ...
>
> Or maybe it could look like this:
>
>   To: [addresses of 51 recipients hidden]
>
> Is this functionality built into gnus?  I'm looking for a variable
> that says to abbreviate long lists of recipients in the To field, and
> perhaps a customization that controls how many addresses (or lines of
> addresses?) appear before the rest are replaced with "...".

That sounds like a useful feature.  I think the best way to implement
this would be to create a new treatment variable that hides long
address headers, and a variable to say how long is long.  Sounds
reasonable? 

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen