Gnus Manual. Node: Article Hiding

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3.17.3: Article Hiding

Or rather, hiding certain things in each article. There usually is much too much cruft in most articles.

W W a

Do quite a lot of hiding on the article buffer (gnus-article-hide). In particular, this function will hide headers, PGP, cited text and the signature.

W W h

Hide headers (gnus-article-hide-headers). See Hiding Headers.

W W b

Hide headers that aren't particularly interesting (gnus-article-hide-boring-headers). See Hiding Headers.

W W s

Hide signature (gnus-article-hide-signature). See Article Signature.

W W p

Hide PGP signatures (gnus-article-hide-pgp). The gnus-article-hide-pgp-hook hook will be run after a PGP signature has been hidden.

W W P

Hide PEM (privacy enhanced messages) cruft (gnus-article-hide-pem).

W W c

Hide citation (gnus-article-hide-citation). Some variables for customizing the hiding:

gnus-cited-opened-text-button-line-format
gnus-cited-closed-text-button-line-format

Gnus adds buttons to show where the cited text has been hidden, and to allow toggle hiding the text. The format of the variable is specified by these format-like variable (see Formatting Variables). These specs are valid:

`b'

Starting point of the hidden text.

`e' Ending point of the hidden text.
`l' Number of characters in the hidden region.
`n' Number of lines of hidden text.

gnus-cited-lines-visible

The number of lines at the beginning of the cited text to leave shown.

W W C-c

Hide citation (gnus-article-hide-citation-maybe) depending on the following two variables:

gnus-cite-hide-percentage

If the cited text is of a bigger percentage than this variable (default 50), hide the cited text.

gnus-cite-hide-absolute

The cited text must have at least this length (default 10) before it is hidden.

W W C

Hide cited text in articles that aren't roots (gnus-article-hide-citation-in-followups). This isn't very useful as an interactive command, but might be a handy function to stick in gnus-article-display-hook (see Customizing Articles).

All these ``hiding'' commands are toggles, but if you give a negative prefix to these commands, they will show what they have previously hidden. If you give a positive prefix, they will always hide.

Also see Article Highlighting for further variables for citation customization.

See Customizing Articles, for how to hide article elements automatically.

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