Re: Slighty improved regexps for citations

[Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer) writes:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Reiner Steib <- 4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de wrote:
>
>> Maybe you'll find the reason for this change in the archives?
>
> I found the reason now and IMO it's worth to discuss again about it.
> The reason was that people if they /wrote/ a message and a colon was the
> first sign in a line gnus thought this line was a quote and so used the
> text colour to indicate a citation.  IMO that happens rather seldom but
> more often I see articles with a colon as indicator for a citation.

The right solution would be (IMO) to have two categories of citation
marks: Frequently used ones and seldom used ones.

For the seldom used ones, Gnus should only mark lines beginning with
those as quotes if the are several such lines.

So in article 1

------------------------------------
From: Foo
Subject: Bar

Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext 
: Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext 
Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext 
Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext 
-----------------------------------

the second line of the body wouldn't be marked as a quote but
in article 2

------------------------------------
From: Foo
Subject: Bar

:Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext 
Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext 

:Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext 
Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext Blindtext 
-----------------------------------

lines 1 and 3 of the body should be marked as quotes.

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