Re: letting message-signature-file be a function

["St. Suika Roberts" <wrobert2@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>]

> It would be nice if the content of message-signature-file could be a
> function that could evaluate to the signature file name.

IWBNI the documentation also mentioned that one needs to set
message-signature-file to nil if one wants to have message-signature be
a function.  It took me longer than I thought it should to figure out
that that was why I was getting double signatures when I first set
message-signature to call my sigrandomizer and insert the text instead
of changing the contents of ~/.signature (which speeded things up a
little bit).

(also it might be nice to have either an example function in the
documentation, and/or a function & variable so that one can specify just
the function to be inserted, and not worry about inserting the ^-- \n ) 

(defun sig ()
  "call sigrnd"
  (interactive)
  (goto-char (point-max))
  ;; Insert the signature.
  (unless (bolp)
    (insert "\n"))
  (insert "\n-- \n")
  (call-process "sigrnd" nil t) ;; have this line be an if, and when one
				;; has the varible set, use the specified
				;; function, else use
				;; message-signature-file
  (goto-char (point-max))
  (or (bolp) (insert "\n")))
(in case you can't tell, this is the message-signature-file insertion
function, hacked a bit, and I just coppied it out of my .emacs, so I
haven't tried the above modification)

Thanks,
	Suika
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