Variable: message-elide-ellipsis

message-elide-ellipsis is a customizable variable defined in message.el.gz.

Value

"\n[...]\n\n"

Documentation

The string which is inserted for elided text.

This is a format-spec string, and you can use %l to say how many lines were removed, and %c to say how many characters were removed.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/message.el.gz
(defcustom message-elide-ellipsis "\n[...]\n\n"
  "The string which is inserted for elided text.
This is a `format-spec' string, and you can use %l to say how
many lines were removed, and %c to say how many characters were
removed."
  :type 'string
  :link '(custom-manual "(message)Various Commands")
  :group 'message-various)