From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50316 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: `W w' (gnus-article-fill-cited-article) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:55:09 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046022977 22678 80.91.224.249 (23 Feb 2003 17:56:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:56:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18n0MK-0005tZ-00 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:56:16 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18n0Lv-0002yM-00; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:55:51 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:56:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02727 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:56:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18n0LU-0005rA-00 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:55:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18n0LT-0005r0-00 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:55:23 +0100 Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:m/R4NlwHiRk4ctAZ3YTS6pk7Ewo= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50316 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50316 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > David Abrahams writes: > >> In other words, the blank line between the two separate quotations >> disappeared. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? > > It's apparently something that `fill-region' does. `fill-prefix' is > bound (by Gnus) to be (in this instance) "> ", and `fill-region' > seemingly wipes out leading lines that consist only of the prefix... > > I think the proper fix is probably something in the filling code, but > Gnus could cheat by not including the leading line in the region to > be filled. I'm (just guessing) but does Gnus try to fill the entire message as one region? It probably ought to be finding individual paragraphs to avoid this problem. I also find some issues in filling where people fail to leave a blank line before replies: > Somebody writes: > > something or other > and I reply with something else Actually, I would be very happy if washing would add those blank lines so that I can see the separate parts of the thread: > Somebody writes: > > > something or other > > and I reply with something else > The consequences might not always be what we want, > though... Thanks very much for thinking about this; I'll be looking forward to a resolution. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com