From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8735 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Z Maze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: quoted text prefix(es) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:57:40 -0500 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Message-ID: References: <8609f$45df2232$49f206a$8706@DIALUPUSA.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172259696 26420 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2007 19:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:41:36 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 23 20:41:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKgIJ-0001Xe-FE for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:41:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKgIJ-0000cH-6f for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:41:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEUGBgS83KhoOivUeFmC pXj4o39qeFZD1JPmAAACOklEQVR4nE2UQY/bIBCFkVPlbpX0bA2tz7sQcl5SlnsWc7cclv// E/oGjNNxokjz8eYxA7HwR9xLKQGRC4eQezqUj7KWnDOzAOB3EjaBKDl4KPARzkvpAIqoUTwI a2op6WVoeXHOlfgsnJPM1kl0SdMIFEJ0AaIJshiRhkCsHbC/51LycKDmgiw2jVJy9B9IDPNN U5NkSMQoR+c5/zTW3qjZgwg5ylpJ2YT4wubO7FEVEs0NhvPJaqzxDaDS2gUpGUjyDkau9NxB fKsmu4Ir2XSpwAjxYwfsfeqlbJwqcAwwcLINxGRWtIhhMEB7ZLoAJudd4aE42e4RCQDjYMXK CpS6XOBtNM7EVfPAbRgihfU08Sg9jqIr9G9JJuo70cCty66gwY6kzJ9xIygyJs7mDNQcSEUV iPSE1qt5mLgUkcGj8ExTbrvii2CwG3UCQkxUXDUPE03KIqPw8Iq33IBfUcbw/Ez9eeo8VvPr qrRNj2RU1DjeaN6cG8c6RKVNnTg+GIDWfAkPBVdK2jC84fCq4n4yik+VNICNtoPlPkScrKmh bPw+FIGSYmBrOUPeNfATjajPpFXtMl0Hvyt4imfzqDvC9zZ3cAEYvlt/ADq7rvDbNKj3RuxC B7gsZRWzbSAaymNXSPxjia8id1GmV6kUyjDMf9vd3daXAiYFd4GvXNzmaT7AspRyJnoif6Nn Ob8UC94fN6KybTSbvB0e46d3Tyzm+I7v4QWW5WGswZulXFNyv/4DGFvqYRv4BxSm28ZwQ4mv AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC X-Face: &OO..E]'&$Q?jm[7H$]lCS"t#FD[|jK.HfvP#![KZ`/, O)lQ(pE<2QS1i~K3+u\{Bh"(4h4G0W#R-F2zZNO6n\!8bk; tu%)f>y{C` P*^7yM`e/x"b1q[?^-9zxTp User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wwEzLOvVPa686SOrqTeH1x3kv1M= Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: CONTENTS-VNDER-PRESSVRE.MIT.EDU Original-X-Trace: 1172257060 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 564 18.7.18.65 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78919 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8735 Archived-At: "B. T. Raven" writes: > Is there a way to replace the stacks of right pointing arrows prefixed to > quoted text in gnus or rmail with an abbreviation? > E.g.: >> >>> > 3> > 4> > ... Honestly, best practice if you've got quoting that deep is to remove some of the really old stuff and just keep the past couple of replies' worth of context. My experience from using Supercite long ago is that using non-standard quote characters makes it harder for other people to read and reply correctly, the ">>>>" format is sufficiently widespread that almost everyone can understand it and generate it (assuming their mailer is functional). > This would prevent text with many levels of nested quotations from pushing > text so far rightward that it is forced to wrap prematurely. The usual M-q Emacs line-wrapping works fine for quoted text. > It seems that > it should be possible to convert to this format even email sent by a > non-conforming program: > > E.g. > >>4> is converted to 5> >>>6> ..... 8> In principle this should be pretty straightforward with some Lisp and some regexp matching, but see e.g. `gnus-supercite-regexp' to see just how hairy the regular-expression matching can get. --dzm