* Re: hidden citation button gotchas [not found] ` <x6ohq7a09x.fsf@eyesore.no> @ 1996-03-08 22:07 ` Greg Stark 1996-03-09 22:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Greg Stark @ 1996-03-08 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw) The more i use Gnus, the more i get suspicious of its use of text properties to hide headers, cited text, and signatures. My uneasiness comes from the way i can copy and paste text from the article and never know that i copied the hidden text until i either save and reopen a file, or until i post news i see the posting. i think this is really dangerous and not in line with the principle of least-surprise. There are two other possible implementations, one is too actually remove the hidden text, the other is to use overlays instead of text properties. With overlays it would be possible to hide the hidden text and insert [...] buttons without actually changing the text, so if you copied the text to another buffer all the [...] and -- buttons would be magically transformed to the hidden text as soon as you pasted, instead of later. If you used the overlay property after-text then the resulting text would even be free of extraneous buttons. This overlay solution would solve the supercite problem of inserting cited text with buttons and hidden text instead of the original. -- greg ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: hidden citation button gotchas 1996-03-08 22:07 ` hidden citation button gotchas Greg Stark @ 1996-03-09 22:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1996-03-09 22:56 UTC (permalink / raw) gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) writes: > There are two other possible implementations, one is too actually > remove the hidden text, the other is to use overlays instead of text > properties. I think using overlays instead of text properties is a good idea. It's a rather big change, though, so I won't be doing anything about it right away. I've added it to the Red Gnus todo list. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time." ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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