Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > annoyed by having to go through pages worth of green lines (quotes are
Obligatory Emacs plug: Use Emacs and Gnus, the built-in mail/newsreader, and never have to worry about overquoted text again! ;) (I'm beginning to sound like spam). No, seriously. Gnus has this feature called Article Hiding, and it allows me to hide quoted text. Quite configurable - you can tell it to hide quoted text unless the quoted text is one or two lines long, or display the first A lines and the last B lines of long quoted text, or whatever. You can easily unhide particular sections of text with <enter> or a left-click, and a few keys can unhide all of the hidden text (or some portions of it). Gnus is really a mail/newsreader for people who are picky about netiquette. For example, it can hide really long "To:" headers. It can hide PGP keys, PEM data, and long signatures. It can get rid of mailing list banners, which is a godsend when you're on a mailing list with _really_ long boilerplate! It can hide the little [plug] in subjects. Article washing can also help make messages more readable. It can capitalize the first word in each sentence. (What the heck?) It can convert HTML to plain text. It can merge multiple blank lines, or strip the blank lines altogether. Mmm, maybe I should look for a way to get article washing to try and translate abbreviations. You can easily kill a thread and move on to the next one, or catch up all your mail. And if you get _really_ annoyed, just permanently or temporarily lower the sender's/subject's/thread's score. Mwahahaha! If you like something, though, you can increase the score easily. No more mucking about with configuration files - scoring is just a couple of intuitive keystrokes away. In fact, with adaptive scoring, you don't even need to manually do anything. Gnus learns your preferences - which authors you read, what threads you like or don't like... Isn't it cool? (Yes, you can turn this feature off, or tweak it, or replace it, or whatever). Gnus works with BBDB (database of contacts), and it can automatically bring up the contact information of people associated with a particular message. (Sender, recipient, cc, whatever). You can tell it to automatically create records for people who write to you, annotate records with notes, and generally do all sorts of funky stuff. You can even tie BBDB into your scoring mechanism. For example, you can score people depending on the total number of personal messages they've sent to you... =) Gnus also buttonizes text it recognizes. For example, if you press <enter> on a link, you are taken to that website. If you press <enter> on man(1), Emacs brings up the manual page for man. It can deal with URLs, news, message IDs, mailto, info and man pages, and you can easily expand it by customizing gnus-button-alist. Gnus makes it easy to navigate a thread. Normally the summary only shows unread mail, but you can hit ^ to retrieve an article's parent or a few keystrokes to include the entire thread in the summary buffer. Gnus also probably has support for the little footnotes Jijo likes to make. <muses> There's a footnote minor mode, anyway. If that won't work, I can probably just fiddle with the buttons, or C-s my way to the footnote. =) Ahhhh, Emacs. Yes, yes, mutt and pine have their purposes and they're really quite nice. I used to be really into mutt. But Emacs is really something else. <g> -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 4 BS CS Ateneo geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, wearables, teaching compsci _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
