* Quoted characters in From: line
@ 1999-12-16 17:50 Raymond Scholz
1999-12-17 10:08 ` Shenghuo ZHU
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From: Raymond Scholz @ 1999-12-16 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
Some people use nicknames in their From: line like:
From: "John \"Foo\" Doe" <john@doe.com>
Gnus currently displays that in the summary buffer as:
John \
RFC822 tells me that quoting with `\' is allowed for quoted-strings
(i.e. strings surrounded by `"'s). I think Gnus is wrong in truncating
the name. This may also apply to other lines in the header.
[Ugh, quoted-printable with =, quoting characters with \, quote
delimiter ", and quoting of citations with >, this confuses me...]
Cheers,
Ray
P.S.: Can I switch off the behaviour that message mode thinks, _any_
line beginning with a single word and a colon needs to be
highlighted. Even in the body of the message? (The P.S.: line is an
example of this). Wouldn't it make more sense to restrict this
behaviour by regarding `gnus-visible-headers' f.e.?
--
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* Re: Quoted characters in From: line
1999-12-16 17:50 Quoted characters in From: line Raymond Scholz
@ 1999-12-17 10:08 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-19 5:56 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1999-12-21 21:04 ` message fontifying (was: Re: Quoted characters in From: line) Kai Großjohann
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From: Shenghuo ZHU @ 1999-12-17 10:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Scholz <rscholz@tzi.de> writes:
Raymond> Some people use nicknames in their From: line like:
Raymond> From: "John \"Foo\" Doe" <john@doe.com>
Raymond> Gnus currently displays that in the summary buffer as:
Raymond> John \
[...]
I suspect a bug in mail-utils.el (part of Emacs) causes the problem.
And the bug has been fixed in FSF Emacs 20.4.
--
~{VlJ$;p~}
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* Re: Quoted characters in From: line
1999-12-16 17:50 Quoted characters in From: line Raymond Scholz
1999-12-17 10:08 ` Shenghuo ZHU
@ 1999-12-19 5:56 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1999-12-21 21:04 ` message fontifying (was: Re: Quoted characters in From: line) Kai Großjohann
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Michael Welsh Duggan @ 1999-12-19 5:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
Raymond Scholz <rscholz@tzi.de> writes:
> Some people use nicknames in their From: line like:
>
> From: "John \"Foo\" Doe" <john@doe.com>
>
> Gnus currently displays that in the summary buffer as:
>
> John \
>
> RFC822 tells me that quoting with `\' is allowed for quoted-strings
> (i.e. strings surrounded by `"'s). I think Gnus is wrong in truncating
> the name. This may also apply to other lines in the header.
You can fix this by setting `gnus-extract-address-components' to
`mail-extract-address-components' instead of
`gnus-extract-address-components'. From the docs:
gnus-extract-address-components's value is
gnus-extract-address-components
Documentation:
*Function for extracting address components from a From header.
Two pre-defined function exist: `gnus-extract-address-components',
which is the default, quite fast, and too simplistic solution, and
`mail-extract-address-components', which works much better, but is
slower.
--
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
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* message fontifying (was: Re: Quoted characters in From: line)
1999-12-16 17:50 Quoted characters in From: line Raymond Scholz
1999-12-17 10:08 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-19 5:56 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
@ 1999-12-21 21:04 ` Kai Großjohann
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 1999-12-21 21:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Raymond Scholz <rscholz@tzi.de> writes:
> P.S.: Can I switch off the behaviour that message mode thinks, _any_
> line beginning with a single word and a colon needs to be
> highlighted. Even in the body of the message? (The P.S.: line is an
> example of this). Wouldn't it make more sense to restrict this
> behaviour by regarding `gnus-visible-headers' f.e.?
Well, message uses font-lock for fontifying in message mode (for
displaying articles, Gnus uses something different), and it is
difficult to tell font-lock to do different things in different areas
of a buffer.
It is a bit annoying, though. Maybe better fontification of message
buffers could be added to the todo list for the next version?
kai
--
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
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