"Mark T. B. Carroll" <[email protected]> writes: > Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:04:08 -0500 "Mark T. B. Carroll" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> MTBC> Two things that Gnus does that really annoy me are: >> MTBC> * If I select text in a message, only that text is quoted when I reply. >> >> That's a feature, I'm not sure why it should be changed. Why is it >> harmful? > > Featurism is in the eye of the beholder. Some applications, in my view, > get steadily worse in the development that happens after the initial > mature versions! This particular `feature' is never what I want. I copy > and paste fragments of articles in checking them out in other > applications, taking notes, etc. But then the selection has happened so > when I get to replying, it just quotes a little bit of the article, so I > have to undo the selection first, whether by going to some other article > then back to that one, or using M-u to mark it unread, quit the group > altogether, reenter it and go back to the article, or whatever. Maybe > there's an easier way to get rid of the selection, but a high fraction > of my selecting has nothing to do with what I might want to quote in > reply, so having to undo it just causes me extra work for no gain. >
Try C-g before you reply. -- Anders _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
