gnus: Customizing Articles
4.4 Customizing Articles
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A slew of functions for customizing how the articles are to look like
exist. You can call these functions interactively (
Article
Washing), or you can have them called automatically when you select
the articles.
To have them called automatically, you should set the corresponding
“treatment” variable. For instance, to have headers hidden, you’d set
‘gnus-treat-hide-headers’. Below is a list of variables that can be
set, but first we discuss the values these variables can have.
Note: Some values, while valid, make little sense. Check the list
below for sensible values.
1. ‘nil’: Don’t do this treatment.
2. ‘t’: Do this treatment on all body parts.
3. ‘head’: Do the treatment on the headers.
4. ‘first’: Do this treatment on the first body part.
5. ‘last’: Do this treatment on the last body part.
6. An integer: Do this treatment on all body parts that have a length
less than this number.
7. A list of strings: Do this treatment on all body parts that are in
articles that are read in groups that have names that match one of
the regexps in the list.
8. A list where the first element is not a string:
The list is evaluated recursively. The first element of the list
is a predicate. The following predicates are recognized: ‘or’,
‘and’, ‘not’ and ‘typep’. Here’s an example:
(or last
(typep "text/x-vcard"))
9. A function: the function is called with no arguments and should
return ‘nil’ or non-‘nil’. The current article is available in the
buffer named by ‘gnus-article-buffer’.
You may have noticed that the word “part” is used here. This refers
to the fact that some messages are MIME multipart articles that may be
divided into several parts. Articles that are not multiparts are
considered to contain just a single part.
Are the treatments applied to all sorts of multipart parts? Yes, if
you want to, but by default, only ‘text/plain’ parts are given the
treatment. This is controlled by the ‘gnus-article-treat-types’
variable, which is a list of regular expressions that are matched to the
type of the part. This variable is ignored if the value of the
controlling variable is a predicate list, as described above.
The following treatment options are available. The easiest way to
customize this is to examine the ‘gnus-article-treat’ customization
group. Values in parenthesis are suggested sensible values. Others are
possible but those listed are probably sufficient for most people.
‘gnus-treat-buttonize (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-buttonize-head (head)’
Article Buttons.
‘gnus-treat-capitalize-sentences (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-overstrike (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-strip-cr (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-strip-headers-in-body (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-strip-leading-blank-lines (t, first, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-strip-multiple-blank-lines (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-strip-pem (t, last, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-strip-trailing-blank-lines (t, last, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-unsplit-urls (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-wash-html (t, integer)’
Article Washing.
‘gnus-treat-date (head)’
This will transform/add date headers according to the
‘gnus-article-date-headers’ variable. This is a list of Date
headers to display. The formats available are:
‘ut’
Universal time, aka GMT, aka ZULU.
‘local’
The user’s local time zone.
‘english’
A semi-readable English sentence.
‘lapsed’
The time elapsed since the message was posted.
‘combined-lapsed’
Both the original date header and a (shortened) elapsed time.
‘original’
The original date header.
‘iso8601’
ISO8601 format, i.e., “2010-11-23T22:05:21”.
‘user-defined’
A format done according to the ‘gnus-article-time-format’
variable.
Article Date.
‘gnus-treat-from-picon (head)’
‘gnus-treat-mail-picon (head)’
‘gnus-treat-newsgroups-picon (head)’
Picons.
‘gnus-treat-from-gravatar (head)’
‘gnus-treat-mail-gravatar (head)’
Gravatars.
‘gnus-treat-display-smileys (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-body-boundary (head)’
Adds a delimiter between header and body, the string used as
delimiter is controlled by ‘gnus-body-boundary-delimiter’.
Smileys.
‘gnus-treat-display-x-face (head)’
X-Face.
‘gnus-treat-display-face (head)’
Face.
‘gnus-treat-emphasize (t, head, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-fill-article (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-fill-long-lines (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-hide-boring-headers (head)’
‘gnus-treat-hide-citation (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-hide-citation-maybe (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-hide-headers (head)’
‘gnus-treat-hide-signature (t, last)’
‘gnus-treat-strip-banner (t, last)’
‘gnus-treat-strip-list-identifiers (head)’
Article Hiding.
‘gnus-treat-highlight-citation (t, integer)’
‘gnus-treat-highlight-headers (head)’
‘gnus-treat-highlight-signature (t, last, integer)’
Article Highlighting.
‘gnus-treat-play-sounds’
‘gnus-treat-ansi-sequences (t)’
‘gnus-treat-x-pgp-sig (head)’
‘gnus-treat-unfold-headers (head)’
‘gnus-treat-fold-headers (head)’
‘gnus-treat-fold-newsgroups (head)’
‘gnus-treat-leading-whitespace (head)’
Article Header.
You can, of course, write your own functions to be called from
‘gnus-part-display-hook’. The functions are called narrowed to the
part, and you can do anything you like, pretty much. There is no
information that you have to keep in the buffer—you can change
everything.
Info Catalog
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gnus: Article Buffer
gnus: Article Keymap