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dsg@linus.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) writes:

> Sounds reasonable.  Here's one such implementation.  I've also patched
> gnus.texi to document it.

Thanks for the patch; I've applied it to Quassia Gnus v0.13.

> One thing that I found kind of weird while
> working on this: My first thought was to simply re-search-forward to
> the first `to' header and call (gnus-article-hide-header "to").  Go
> back to the beginning and try again.  Repeat until none left.  

[...]

> But... if I selected the *Article* buffer (after reading it),
> turned off read-only and explicitly called (gnus-article-hide-header
> "to") via eval-expression, it did the "right" thing and got rid of
> each instance of the header in succession.  I'm curious as to why this
> happens.

Because the Gnus function binds `inhibit-point-motion-hooks', which
means that it treats intangible text as tangible.

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