Re: Your signature is 10 lines??

Re: Your signature is 10 lines??

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

>From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@hler.ifi.uio.no>
>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
> 
>Victor Miller <victor@ccr-p.ida.org> writes:
> 
>> In using the new gnus (5.2.36), whenever I post, I get a warning that
>> my signature is 10 lines.  It isn't -- it's 5 lines.  Where's the bug?
>> -- 
>> Victor S. Miller              | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute
>> victor@ccr-p.ida.org          | can hardly be expected to keep writing papers
>> CCR, Princeton, NJ 08540      | saying 'I can do the following useless
>>                               | calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed what
>>                               | editor would publish them?"  -- Oliver Atkin
>> 
>>  
>>  
>> 
> 
> When Gnus says that your signature is ten lines, it is ten lines.  :-)
> 
> Remove the trailing blank lines from your signature file.

It looks like a safe bet that this wil become a FAQ...
Maybe you should insert something like this:
  (goto-char (point-max))
  (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
  (forward-line 1)
  (and (not (eobp))
       (y-or-n-p (format "Delete the trailing blank line%s %s? "
                         (if (looking-at ".*\n[ \t\n]") "s" "")
                         (if has-signature "after the signature " "")))
       (delete-region (point) (point-max)))


Also, I suspect that every
	(re-search-forward message-signature-separator)
in message.el should be
	(goto-char (point-max))
>>>	(if (re-search-backward ...)
	    (goto-char (match-end 0)))

-- 
Hallvard

Re: Your signature is 10 lines??

[Steven L Baur]

>>>>> "Hallvard" == Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

Lars> When Gnus says that your signature is ten lines, it is ten lines.  :-)
Lars> Remove the trailing blank lines from your signature file.

Hallvard> It looks like a safe bet that this wil become a FAQ...

O.K.  I put it in the FAQ.
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Re: Your signature is 10 lines??

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> It looks like a safe bet that this wil become a FAQ...
> Maybe you should insert something like this:
>   (goto-char (point-max))
>   (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
>   (forward-line 1)
>   (and (not (eobp))
>        (y-or-n-p (format "Delete the trailing blank line%s %s? "
>                          (if (looking-at ".*\n[ \t\n]") "s" "")
>                          (if has-signature "after the signature " "")))
>        (delete-region (point) (point-max)))

Ok; I'll be adding this to Red Gnus.

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