On Thu, Dec 25 2008, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > The key C-c C-e currently elides a region of text and produces the > following
[snipped 6 lines, 73 chars] > Ideally, [...] or [snipped x lines] can be made default with the > option of the user being able to change the text. How about the following? (setq message-elide-ellipsis "\n[snipped %l lines, %c chars]\n\n") (defun rs-message-elide-region (b e) "Elide the text in the region. An ellipsis (from `message-elide-ellipsis') will be inserted where the text was killed." (interactive "r") (let ((lines (count-lines b e)) (chars (- e b))) (kill-region b e) (insert (format-spec message-elide-ellipsis `((?l . ,lines) (?c . ,chars)))))) Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/ _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english