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Re: hooks

#8989
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1992 17:47
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Len Weisberg writes:
 > If I had a preview-message hook available I would try to use it to make it 
 > obvious that the message is only partially displayed and perhaps indicate
 > how much remains.  Because a partial message looks so much like a complete
 > (short) message, I have never used previewing at all.

If people are getting confused about where the message begins and
ends then that's an interrface problem.  This is something that
should be addressed in VM itself rather than in a hook function.
I tried to address the problem once by using the Emacs overlay
arrow feature but it would either make GNUS crash, or disappear
when the user changed windows, or display the arrow string on
every screen line after the end of buffer position.  Maybe I
should just put "More..." in the echo area... ?

 > I mention this just to indicate a requirement that information be readily
 > available to the hook function on how much of the message is undisplayed.
 > This may (or may not) have some bearing on what is included in the clipping
 > region.

I think I will make the whole message be within the clipping
region in all cases.
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 13:47:20 -0400
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