Re: message mode, leading colons, and fake cited text

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

Hi,

>>>>> In <wc365ydyo4r.fsf@eta.cis.ohio-state.edu>
>>>>>	Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

>> I've solved it in CVS.  Here's a patch for the released version
>> of Oort Gnus v0.07:

Benjamin> :( I wish your update solved it for me.  But, this line is still red.
Benjamin> :What's worse, this line's 1st character became a colon.  And this
Benjamin> :next line (this one) has the colon too, apparently this happens at
Benjamin> :fill time.  (I use auto-fill-mode in message buffers so I can keep
Benjamin> :typing and avoid hitting RET).

Did you customize the value for `message-cite-prefix-regexp'?
My change makes it possible to reflect that value to the
font-lock-keywords in the message buffer dynamically.  Since the
default value for `message-cite-prefix-regexp' contains ":", the
default behavior won't be changed.  You need to put something
like the following lines in your .gnus file:

(if (string-match "[^[]:[^]]" message-cite-prefix-regexp)
    (setq message-cite-prefix-regexp
	  (concat (substring message-cite-prefix-regexp
			     0 (1+ (match-beginning 0)))
		  (substring message-cite-prefix-regexp
			     (1- (match-end 0))))))

;; or you may use the following lines for Emacs 21 instead.
(setq message-cite-prefix-regexp
      "\\([ \t]*[-_.[:word:]]+>+\\|[ \t]*[]>»|}+]\\)+")

Otherwise, if you feel the color for those lines is too loud,
you can modify it as follows:

(set-face-foreground 'message-cited-text-face "DarkGreen")

Regards,
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>