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long recipient field truncation

Bug #744059 reported by Arik
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In Progress
Wishlist
Arik
VM 8.3.90a

Bug Description

Feature request. I sometimes get mail that is explicitly to a lot of addresses (as opposed to mailing lists) to the point that previewing in a reasonable sized window reveals none of the message. I propose adding a function and variable that will detect the number of addresses in the To: (and CC:) fields and truncate above a certain number, then summarize the remaining count when previewing. i.e.:

To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>, (and 42 others)

Where the variable is set to 3 (show at most 3). Perhaps a reasonable default could be assumed (6 or so? Or simply nil). Envoking vm-expose-hidden-headers should then display all of the recipients

Arik (akwm)
Changed in vm:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → Arik (akwm)
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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote : Re: [Bug 744059] [NEW] long recipient field truncation

Hi Arik, check out the shrunken-headers option in vm-rfaddons. Please
feel free to integrate it into core VM.

Cheers,
Uday

Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
Changed in vm:
status: New → Triaged
milestone: none → 8.2.1
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Arik (akwm) wrote :

Ah, I didn't know about this part. Keeping with the theme of having convenient simple things as a part of the core VM I will see what I can do in terms of getting this (or something like it) in there.

Thanks,
-Arik

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Arik (akwm) wrote :

Hey all,

I have pushed a branch called abbreviate-headers that has two changes related to integrating the shrunken-headers capability into standard VM. One is pretty much the same as shrunken-headers except is re-implemented and allows a variable to control what to do with specific headers ("To" can show more/less lines than "Subject" for example). Also along the same lines is a function for filling headers (will do unanimously) to a particular line indicated by vm-fill-headers-column (default is nil: do not fill headers at all). See variable vm-abbreviate-headers for the shrunken headers like customization.

I would appreciate if anyone would give this a shot and let me know what they think or any problems encountered. I have been using it for a few days now without problems but may not have encountered some cases.

Thanks,
-Arik

Changed in vm:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote : [Bug 744059] Re: long recipient field truncation

Hi Arik, I have to go out of town this week and won't be able to look
at it until I return. Perhaps, Tim can help in the meanwhile. Please
put a review request on your branches and assign it to one of us.
That way, it won't fall through the cracks.

Cheers,
Uday

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