Discourse Agressively Truncates Quotes (replying via email)

Sven · July 15, 2021, 6:42pm

My previous post is missing the first line

“From my point of view, VPNs and also Tor are used by a lot of folks”

@deeplow … that line unintentionally started with a " " (space).
Discourse appears to be unreasonably aggressive about pruning quotes in
email replies, can this be dialed back a bit? My post are frequently
mutilated or missing quotes / examples.

deeplow · July 16, 2021, 10:46am

Not sure. Will have to investigate. I know there are some settings.

Also, as far as I’m aware the reply trimmer’s code is the following. Maybe you can find the problematic pattern there and address it upstream:

github.com

discourse/email_reply_trimmer/blob/master/lib/email_reply_trimmer/embedded_email_matcher.rb#L17

    
      
          # On 10/12/15 12:30, Jeff Atwood wrote:
          # ---- On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:17:36 +0530 Sam Saffron&lt;info@discourse.org&gt; wrote ----
          # Op 24 aug. 2013 om 16:48 heeft ven88 via Discourse Meta <info@discourse.org> het volgende geschreven:
          # Le 4 janv. 2016 19:03, "Neil Lalonde" <info@discourse.org> a écrit :
          # Dnia 14 lip 2015 o godz. 00:25 Michael Downey <info@discourse.org> napisał(a):
          # Em seg, 27 de jul de 2015 17:13, Neil Lalonde <info@discourse.org> escreveu:
          # El jueves, 21 de noviembre de 2013, codinghorror escribió:
          # At 6/16/2016 08:32 PM, you wrote:
          ON_DATE_SOMEONE_WROTE_REGEXES ||= [
            # Chinese
            /^[[:blank:]<>-]*在 (?:(?!\b(?>在|写道)\b).)+?写道[[:blank:].:>-]*$/im,
            # Dutch
            /^[[:blank:]<>-]*Op (?:(?!\b(?>Op|het\svolgende\sgeschreven|schreef)\b).)+?(het\svolgende\sgeschreven|schreef[^:]+)[[:blank:].:>-]*$/im,
            # English
            /^[[:blank:]<>-]*In message (?:(?!\b(?>In message|writes)\b).)+?writes[[:blank:].:>-]*$/im,
            /^[[:blank:]<>-]*(On|At) (?:(?!\b(?>On|wrote|writes|says|said)\b).)+?(wrote|writes|says|said)[[:blank:].:>-]*$/im,
            # French
            /^[[:blank:]<>-]*Le (?:(?!\b(?>Le|nous\sa\sdit|a\s+écrit)\b).)+?(nous\sa\sdit|a\s+écrit)[[:blank:].:>-]*$/im,
            # German
            /^[[:blank:]<>-]*Am (?:(?!\b(?>Am|schrieben\sSie)\b).)+?schrieben\sSie[[:blank:].:>-]*$/im,
            /^[[:blank:]<>-]*Am (?:(?!\b(?>Am|geschrieben)\b).)+?(geschrieben|schrieb[^:]+)[[:blank:].:>-]*$/im,

deeplow · July 19, 2021, 1:00pm

@Sven I’ve checked the settings and I don’t see any option I can tweak to make this easier for you. Perhaps starting a discussion on discourse meta is the best solution. Something like this one:

Sven · July 19, 2021, 2:08pm

Thanks for checking!