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3.17.4 Article Washing

We call this "article washing" for a really good reason. Namely, the A key was taken, so we had to use the W key instead.

Washing is defined by us as "changing something from something to something else", but normally results in something looking better. Cleaner, perhaps.

See section 4.3 Customizing Articles, if you want to change how Gnus displays articles by default.

C-u g
This is not really washing, it's sort of the opposite of washing. If you type this, you see the article exactly as it exists on disk or on the server.
W l
Remove page breaks from the current article (gnus-summary-stop-page-breaking). See section 4.5 Misc Article, for page delimiters.
W r
Do a Caesar rotate (rot13) on the article buffer (gnus-summary-caesar-message). Unreadable articles that tell you to read them with Caesar rotate or rot13. (Typically offensive jokes and such.) It's commonly called "rot13" because each letter is rotated 13 positions in the alphabet, e. g. `B' (letter #2) -> `O' (letter #15). It is sometimes referred to as "Caesar rotate" because Caesar is rumored to have employed this form of, uh, somewhat weak encryption.
W t
t
Toggle whether to display all headers in the article buffer (gnus-summary-toggle-header).
W v
Toggle whether to display all headers in the article buffer permanently (gnus-summary-verbose-header).
W o
Treat overstrike (gnus-article-treat-overstrike).
W d
Treat M****s*** sm*rtq**t*s according to gnus-article-dumbquotes-map (gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes). Note that this function guesses whether a character is a sm*rtq**t* or not, so it should only be used interactively. Sm*rtq**t*s are M****s***'s unilateral extension to the character map in an attempt to provide more quoting characters. If you see something like \222 or \264 where you're expecting some kind of apostrophe or quotation mark, then try this wash.
W w
Do word wrap (gnus-article-fill-cited-article). You can give the command a numerical prefix to specify the width to use when filling.
W Q
Fill long lines (gnus-article-fill-long-lines).
W C
Capitalize the first word in each sentence (gnus-article-capitalize-sentences).
W c
Translate CRLF pairs (i. e., `^M's on the end of the lines) into LF (this takes care of DOS line endings), and then translate any remaining CRs into LF (this takes care of Mac line endings) (gnus-article-remove-cr).
W q
Treat quoted-printable (gnus-article-de-quoted-unreadable). Quoted-Printable is one common MIME encoding employed when sending non-ASCII (i. e., 8-bit) articles. It typically makes strings like `déjà vu' look like `d=E9j=E0 vu', which doesn't look very readable to me. Note that the this is usually done automatically by Gnus if the message in question has a Content-Transfer-Encoding header that says that this encoding has been done. If a prefix is given, a charset will be asked for.
W 6
Treat base64 (gnus-article-de-base64-unreadable). Base64 is one common MIME encoding employed when sending non-ASCII (i. e., 8-bit) articles. Note that the this is usually done automatically by Gnus if the message in question has a Content-Transfer-Encoding header that says that this encoding has been done. If a prefix is given, a charset will be asked for.
W Z
Treat HZ or HZP (gnus-article-decode-HZ). HZ (or HZP) is one common encoding employed when sending Chinese articles. It typically makes strings look like `~{<:Ky2;S{#,NpJ)l6HK!#~}'.
W h
Treat HTML (gnus-article-wash-html). Note that the this is usually done automatically by Gnus if the message in question has a Content-Type header that says that this type has been done. If a prefix is given, a charset will be asked for.
W b
Add clickable buttons to the article (gnus-article-add-buttons). See section 3.17.6 Article Buttons.
W B
Add clickable buttons to the article headers (gnus-article-add-buttons-to-head).
W p
Verify a signed control message (gnus-article-verify-x-pgp-sig). Control messages such as newgroup and checkgroups are usually signed by the hierarchy maintainer. You need to add the PGP public key of the maintainer to your keyring to verify the message.(1)
W s
Verify a signed (PGP, PGP/MIME or S/MIME) message (gnus-summary-force-verify-and-decrypt). See section 3.30 Security.
W W H
Strip headers like the X-No-Archive header from the beginning of article bodies (gnus-article-strip-headers-from-body).
W E l
Remove all blank lines from the beginning of the article (gnus-article-strip-leading-blank-lines).
W E m
Replace all blank lines with empty lines and then all multiple empty lines with a single empty line. (gnus-article-strip-multiple-blank-lines).
W E t
Remove all blank lines at the end of the article (gnus-article-remove-trailing-blank-lines).
W E a
Do all the three commands above (gnus-article-strip-blank-lines).
W E A
Remove all blank lines (gnus-article-strip-all-blank-lines).
W E s
Remove all white space from the beginning of all lines of the article body (gnus-article-strip-leading-space).
W E e
Remove all white space from the end of all lines of the article body (gnus-article-strip-trailing-space).

See section 4.3 Customizing Articles, for how to wash articles automatically.


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