Re: gnus-treat-[hide-citation[-maybe]]

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> Furthermore, I'd like that capability for all of the `treat-' things.
> You give me the "integer" option which says "apply if the thing is less
> than n characters," which seems like it must've been designed for an era
> when CPU cycles were much more expensive than they are now, or for
> people who get truly enormous messages.

That era is approaching again, as Emacs moves to cell phones...  :-)

> But for any `treat-' action whose business is hiding information
> that's going to get in my way, I usually only want it when the thing
> in question gets really big.  For example, I want to see peoples'
> signatures, but if their company forces them to write an obnoxiously
> long disclaimer in the signature area, well, I don't want to see that.

Yes, having that treatment function only trigger on long signatures
would be nice.  So a way to specify a, er, sort of algorithm-specific
input to each treatment function would be nice.

Anyway, I've made the doc string of `gnus-treat-hide-citation-maybe'
more sensible.

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