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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 Customizing Articles, if you want to change how Gnus displays articles by default.
gnus-summary-show-article). This is also not really washing.
If you type this, you see the article without any previously applied
interactive Washing functions but with all default treatments
(see Customizing Articles).
gnus-summary-stop-page-breaking). See Misc Article, for page
delimiters.
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.
gnus-summary-morse-message).
gnus-summary-toggle-header).
gnus-summary-verbose-headers).
gnus-article-treat-overstrike).
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.
gnus-article-treat-non-ascii).
This is mostly useful if you're on a terminal that has a limited font
and doesn't show accented characters, “advanced” punctuation, and the
like. For instance, ‘ยป’ is translated into ‘>>’, and so on.
gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article).
gnus-outlook-deuglify-unwrap-min and
gnus-outlook-deuglify-unwrap-max, indicating the minimum and
maximum length of an unwrapped citation line.
(gnus-article-outlook-unwrap-lines).
gnus-article-outlook-repair-attribution).
gnus-article-outlook-rearrange-citation).
gnus-article-fill-cited-article).
You can give the command a numerical prefix to specify the width to use
when filling.
gnus-article-fill-long-lines).
gnus-article-capitalize-sentences).
gnus-article-remove-cr).
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 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.
gnus-article-de-base64-unreadable). Base64 is
one common MIME encoding employed when sending
non-ASCII (i.e., 8-bit) articles. Note that 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.
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!#~}’.
gnus-article-treat-ansi-sequences). ANSI
sequences are used in some Chinese hierarchies for highlighting.
gnus-article-unsplit-urls).
gnus-article-wash-html). Note that this is
usually done automatically by Gnus if the message in question has a
Content-Type header that says that the message is HTML.
If a prefix is given, a charset will be asked for. If it is a number,
the charset defined in gnus-summary-show-article-charset-alist
(see Paging the Article) will be used.
The default is to use the function specified by
mm-text-html-renderer (see Display Customization) to convert the
HTML. Pre-defined functions you can use include:
shrgnus-w3mw3w3mw3m-standalonelinkslynxhtml2textgnus-article-add-buttons).
See Article Buttons.
gnus-article-add-buttons-to-head).
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
gnus-summary-force-verify-and-decrypt). See Security.
X-No-Archive header from the beginning of
article bodies (gnus-article-strip-headers-in-body).
gnus-article-strip-leading-blank-lines).
gnus-article-strip-multiple-blank-lines).
gnus-article-remove-trailing-blank-lines).
gnus-article-strip-blank-lines).
gnus-article-strip-all-blank-lines).
gnus-article-strip-leading-space).
gnus-article-strip-trailing-space).
See Customizing Articles, for how to wash articles automatically.
[1] PGP keys for many hierarchies are available at ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README.html