John Galt wrote: > Elm predates any microsoft email product... Try to quote stuff in elm, > the cursor goes to the beginning of the text.
Where the cursor starts out is beside the point. What matters is the structure of the message. Most traditional Internet email clients, such as elm or mutt, give you a document like this: ___cut_here___ John Galt wrote: > Elm predates any microsoft email product... Try to quote stuff in elm, > the cursor goes to the beginning of the text. ___cut_here___ The use of angle-bracket quote marks on the left margin makes it easy to tell what text is new and what is quoted, facilitating proper replies. Moving the cursor to the bottom is trivial, and I think it's best that the client not do that automatically, as it would discourage the user from cutting out irrelevant material from the quoted message. (In fact, it is easily observed that most people who reply at the top fail to trim the quoted text.) Microsoft's mail clients, on the other hand, give you something like this: ___cut_here___ --- Original message --- From: John Galt Elm predates any microsoft email product... Try to quote stuff in elm, the cursor goes to the beginning of the text. ___cut_here___ Note that they provide no left-margin quote marks, nor any indication of where the original message ends, and they leave a blank line or two at the top, implying that your reply should go there (otherwise, why put it there?). Craig
