GNU bug report logs - #9395
[Feature Request] gnus-treat-hide-citation[-maybe]

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Package: gnus;

Reported by: Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:08:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 5.110018

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 9395 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 9395 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9395: [Feature Request] gnus-treat-hide-citation[-maybe]
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:09:55 -0800
on Sun Sep 04 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> I just found this setting which I _almost_ love.  The only problem with
>> it is that when there's no attribution line for each and every cited
>> section some of them disappear altogether, which can make it very
>> confusing to read. 
>
> Do you have an example?

Right now, no [I've switched to using `gnus-treat-hide-citation' instead
because it has semantics closer to what I want.]  I have seen numerous
ones of the following form:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Joe Plotz said:
> something he
> said

with which I disagree

> some more that he said

with which I also disagree
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

There was nothing indicating the presence of a citation after the first
one.



-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com




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