Re: someone broke message-newline-and-reformat

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

On 10 Nov 2000, Vladimir Volovich wrote:

>         (when (looking-at " *\\(\\w\\|[-._]\\)*>+[ \t]*\\|[]>»|:}+ \t]*")

I'd be glad if these regexes weren't hard-coded.  There are variables
gnus-cite-prefix-regexp and gnus-supercite-regexp, as well as
gnus-supercite-secondary-regexp.  Can you make use of them in some
way?  Maybe one of these needs to be changed so that
message-newline-and-reformat works correctly -- then the required
change is probably also useful for the other applications.

Another idea is that we might need to move gnus-cite-prefix-regexp and
gnus-supercite-regexp to message-* variables since message.el is
supposed to be usable without Gnus (but not vice versa).

Right now, regexes which are supposed to match citation prefixes are
scattered about the Gnus source code in various places -- this isn't a
healthy situation, imvho.

Thoughts?

kai
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