Re: Remove unnecessary empty lines in article body. New feature?

On 02.10.2008, at 12:36, Urs Janßen wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:17:27PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
>> So I patched my tin to behave like this:
>>
>> -remove leading empty lines
>> -replace multiple empty lines with one empty line (when not in  
>> verbatim
>> blocks)
>> -remove trailing empty lines (keep one if an attachement follows)
>>
>> Empty lines in this context are lines with a length of 1 (line[0] ==
>> '\n'). For details see the patch attached.
>>
>> If anyone else is interested in this feature I would make it a 'M'enu
>> option (for instance: "Trim article body", default OFF).
>
> If you add that option (dunno if it's a usefull feature) I would  
> suggest to

If this feature is usefull or not depends on the groups you are  
subscribed to. Some user in non-technically groups insert empty lines  
excessively.

> not just make it a on/off option but allow a finer control, e.g.:
>
> 0 = off
> 1 = skip leading empty
> 2 = skip tailing empty
> 3 = skip leading and tailing empty
> 4 = compact multiple empty between textblocks
> 5 = compact multiple empty between textblocks && skip leading empty
> 6 = compact multiple empty between textblocks && skip tailing empty
> 7 = all
>
> and maybe a second option which controls in which body-parts the  
> setting
> should be used:
>
> 0 = none
> 1 = body without signature (without verbatim blocks)
> 2 = signature only (without verbatim blocks)
> 3 = body & signature (without verbatim blocks)

Agreed, but this may take a while.

Dennis