gnus: Article Signature
3.18.10 Article Signature
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Each article is divided into two parts—the head and the body. The body
can be divided into a signature part and a text part. The variable that
says what is to be considered a signature is ‘gnus-signature-separator’.
This is normally the standard ‘^-- $’ as mandated by son-of-RFC 1036.
However, many people use non-standard signature separators, so this
variable can also be a list of regular expressions to be tested, one by
one. (Searches are done from the end of the body towards the
beginning.) One likely value is:
(setq gnus-signature-separator
'("^-- $" ; The standard
"^-- *$" ; A common mangling
"^-------*$" ; Many people just use a looong
; line of dashes. Shame!
"^ *--------*$" ; Double-shame!
"^________*$" ; Underscores are also popular
"^========*$")) ; Pervert!
The more permissive you are, the more likely it is that you’ll get
false positives.
‘gnus-signature-limit’ provides a limit to what is considered a
signature when displaying articles.
1. If it is an integer, no signature may be longer (in characters)
than that integer.
2. If it is a floating point number, no signature may be longer (in
lines) than that number.
3. If it is a function, the function will be called without any
parameters, and if it returns ‘nil’, there is no signature in the
buffer.
4. If it is a string, it will be used as a regexp. If it matches, the
text in question is not a signature.
This variable can also be a list where the elements may be of the
types listed above. Here’s an example:
(setq gnus-signature-limit
'(200.0 "^---*Forwarded article"))
This means that if there are more than 200 lines after the signature
separator, or the text after the signature separator is matched by the
regular expression ‘^---*Forwarded article’, then it isn’t a signature
after all.
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