Re: Citation processing in HTML articles?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Mon May 16 2016, Emanuel Berg <embe8573-AT-student.uu.se> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> I have come to rely on Gnus' syntax coloring
>> and most especially its ability to hide long
>> stretches of cited text (nobody prunes their
>> messages anymore).
>
> Creative! :) The power of colors should never
> be underestimated. (And I'm not talking pink
> panties here.)
>
> But, in this case there is a better way:
>
>     (setq gnus-treat-hide-citation t)

? That's what I do already

>> But I also deal with lots of messages that
>> only format well when rendered as HTML, and
>> AFAICT there's no way to get gnus-cite to
>> interoperate with shr or w3m, which often
>> leaves me scrolling through huge blobs of
>> cited text hoping I don't miss the one- or
>> two-line response. Does anybody have
>> a solution for this?
>
> You better believe it:
>
>     (setq mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext"))

You're missing my point.  This is for “messages that
only format well when rendered as HTML.”  Unfortunately, I have to deal
with many of those.

-- 
-Dave