Thanks for the help!
Ok, I'll look into the mailing list.
[Assuming you are using GG with firefox on linux]
All you need to do is
1. Install 'Its all text' FF addon
2. Point the 'editor' of 'Its all text' to the below python script
After that, a small new edit button will appear outside the text-box and its one-click solution
-------------Python Script--------------
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# As far as I know both python2 and 3 work
# Windows/Mac no idea
# A script to drop-in as an editor for firefox addon "Its all text"
# It cleans up two google-group nuisances:
# 1. Useless blank lines
# 2. Excessively long lines
# No efforts at error reporting as stderr is not available in any
# easy way (I know) to firefox (other browsers?)
# To test separately:
# Compose a mail (preferably reply) in GG
# Copy-paste the stuff (maybe with some long lines added without the >)
# Run this script with that filename as argv[1]
from sys import argv
from re import sub
import re
# Clean double spacing
def cleands(s):
# Assumption: ASCII 025 (NAK) never occurs in input
s1 = sub("^> *\n> *$", "\025" , s , flags=re.M)
s2 = sub("^> *\n" , "" , s1, flags=re.M)
s3 = sub("\025\n" , ">\n" , s2, flags=re.M)
return s3
# Maximum length that (new) lines should attain
Maxlen = 75
# clean all long lines, s is the whole file/text
def cleanall_ll(s):
lines = (cleanll(l) for l in s.split("\n"))
return "\n".join(lines)
# clean one long line
def cleanll(line):
return ( line if line.startswith(">") else cleanll_rec(line) )
def cleanll_rec(line):
if len(line) <= Maxlen : return line
pos = line.rfind(" ", 0, Maxlen)
if pos == -1 : #Failed due to no spaces
return line
return line[0
os] + "\n" + cleanll_rec(line[pos+1: ])
def clean(s):
return cleanall_ll(cleands(s))
def main():
with open(argv[1]) as f: s = f.read()
with open(argv[1], "w") as f: f.write(clean(s))
if __name__ == '__main__' :
main()
