Re: Suggestions

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> On 02 May 1996 16:31:07 +0200, "Ketil.Z" <ketil@ii.uib.no> said:

  Ketil> Anyway, what I'd really like for [SR]Gnus, is to recognize,
  Ketil> and do various things with different regions of a message.
  Ketil> In particular, I'd like source code to be treated differently
  Ketil> from text - perhaps according to defaults in text-mode versus
  Ketil> cc-mode (other modes might apply)?

  Ketil> Other things, like tables and such would be nice to
  Ketil> recognize, too.  I guess the most important problem is
  Ketil> knowing when to auto fill, and when not to.

I think this problem is AI complete if you want to do it properly.  I
propose the following view on this:

The author of a mail message wrote it in a monospaced (as opposed to
proportional) font.  The author of a message tries to make it
readable.  Therefore the rendition of a message that the author sees
can be expected to be rather readable.  Thus you shouldn't
second-guess that and just use a monospaced font for everything.

I'd imagine recognizing C might be rather easy: if the lines ends in
";" it's C, if the prev and/or the next line is C and the line
contains "else", it's C, too.

But how would you tell the difference between English and Cobol in
"add a to b giving c"?

Just my $0.02,
kai
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