Thanks David. Supercite does too much for me. Since the very format of your response (below) demonstrates the impracticality of my idea, what I want now is what you suggest, but implemented automatically, something like (strip-deep-cites n) where n is, say, the maximum number of allowable > characters prefixed to a line. Then all groups of lines with a greater number of > characters would be collapsed to the sequence C-j [...] C-j C-j. Do you know of something similar to that already implemented in elisp. Unfortunately, however, most of supercite.el is over my head.
"David Z Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "B. T. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
