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>>>>> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr>:

> The problem with gnus-emphasis-alist, as well as many other parts of
> Gnus, is over-reliance on regexps.  There is a limit to what regexps
> can do,

Agreed!

> and gnus-emphasis-alist is damn near hitting it.

> I've been dreaming about ways to define a nicer (more Lispy)
> language to define heuristics, that deals with tokens such as
> "words" and "sentences" rather than individual characters. 

I like it.

> Making such a beast usable, elegant, and fast is a highly
> non-trivial task.

Indeed.