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From: Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: Posting with long lines
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:10:39 +0000
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Thomas Dupond <thomas@dupond.eu> writes:

> Le 2024-03-12 à 13:02, Richmond a écrit : > When posting an article
>with long lines (usually urls or quoted text) > gnus says the article
>contains long lines and asks if I really want to > post. It doesn't say
>exactly where the line is, but I think it knows, > because when I do
>post the cursor moves to the offending line briefly, > and then off the
>article goes. Is there a way to highlight the line?  > perhaps gnus can
>be fixed to do this?  > Is there anyone there? If you are there and
>nobody has replied, > reply > saying "I don't know." so I know this
>group isn't dead, if you > would. Thanks in advance...
>
> Looking at message.el.gz, the function message-check-news-body-syntax
> is likely to be the culprit.
>
> This function checks if a line length is higher than 80 characters
> long and warns you with the following:
>
> "You have lines longer than 79 characters.  Really post?"
>
> To detect lines longer than 80 characters you can use whitespace-mode
> which will highlight lines longer than the value held by the variable
> whitespace-line-column.
>
> The default value of whitespace-line-column is 80.
>
> Regards,

Thanks, this works. It is usually urls which cause the notice but now I
at least know it is the url only.