citation line above or below body?

2011-01-19 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
When I reply to messages and cite the original, point ends up below the citation line. This leads to weird threads, where my text ends up right below the "so-and-so wrote:" line, and other people's mail programs don't seem to do it that way. My message-citation-line-function is currently set to mes

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-01-21 Thread Philipp Haselwarter
"G" == Gary writes: G> Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> When I reply to messages and cite the original, point ends up below >> the citation line. This leads to weird threads, where my text ends up >> right below the "so-and-so wrote:" line G> What do you mean? That you then type where the cursor is?

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-01-21 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Fri, Jan 21 2011, Philipp Haselwarter wrote: > "G" == Gary writes: > > G> Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >>> When I reply to messages and cite the original, point ends up below >>> the citation line. This leads to weird threads, where my text ends up >>> right below the "so-and-so wrote:" line > >

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-01-22 Thread Reiner Steib
On Wed, Jan 19 2011, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > When I reply to messages and cite the original, point ends up below the > citation line. This leads to weird threads, where my text ends up right > below the "so-and-so wrote:" line, and other people's mail programs > don't seem to do it that way. Th

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-01-24 Thread Philipp Haselwarter
"G" == Gary writes: G> Philipp Haselwarter wrote: >> "G" == Gary writes: >> G> Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> When I reply to messages and cite the original, point ends up below the citation line. This leads to weird threads, where my text ends up right below the "so-and-so wrote:"

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-01-24 Thread Richard Riley
Philipp Haselwarter writes: > "G" == Gary writes: > > G> Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >>> When I reply to messages and cite the original, point ends up below >>> the citation line. This leads to weird threads, where my text ends up >>> right below the "so-and-so wrote:" line > > G> What do you mean

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-01-24 Thread Philipp Haselwarter
---8<---[snipped 27 lines: everything :p]---8<--- Well I tend to leave in just the parts I'm directly answering/referring to, which is usually the outermost level of citation. If someone wants to follow a thread, he can do just that - read the thread. When the whole conversation is quoted each tim

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-01-24 Thread Richard Riley
Philipp Haselwarter writes: > ---8<---[snipped 27 lines: everything :p]---8<--- > > Well I tend to leave in just the parts I'm directly answering/referring > to, which is usually the outermost level of citation. If someone wants > to follow a thread, he can do just that - read the thread. > When

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-01-24 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Mon, Jan 24 2011, Philipp Haselwarter wrote: > "G" == Gary writes: > > G> Philipp Haselwarter wrote: > >>> "G" == Gary writes: >>> > G> Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>> > When I reply to messages and cite the original, point ends up below > the citation line. This leads to weird threads,

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-02-26 Thread Sébastien Vauban
Hi Philipp, Philipp Haselwarter wrote: > That's the point. Moving down manually every time is a bit of a pain if > you just want to quote and start typing. > > ---8<---[snipped 19 lines]---8<--- I guess the above "elide" function is automatic. When pressing `C-h a', I see I only have one version

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-02-26 Thread Damien Wyart
* Sébastien Vauban in gnu.emacs.gnus: > > ---8<---[snipped 19 lines]---8<--- > I guess the above "elide" function is automatic. When pressing `C-h a', I see > I only have one version of it, the one (`message-elide-region') which inserts > ellipsis. How do you get a line-count? See these messages:

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-02-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Sat, Feb 26 2011,Damien Wyart wrote: > * Sébastien Vauban in gnu.emacs.gnus: >> > ---8<---[snipped 19 lines]---8<--- >> I guess the above "elide" function is automatic. When pressing `C-h a', I see >> I only have one version of it, the one (`message-elide-region') which inserts >> ellipsis. Ho

Re: citation line above or below body?

2011-03-15 Thread Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Sivaram Neelakantan writes: > By coincidence, I'd mailed Lars to ask whether he could merge that > patch into message.el. I'd recently installed stuff on a new machine > and found that message-elide-region was not working for me. Turns out > it's not applied to the file. I've now added this to