From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Differences between mail-mode and message-mode
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:51:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ab30pnm7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ot8zyqb.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
> From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org
> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:41:32 +0200
>
> > . mail-mode runs `text-mode-hook' and `mail-mode-hook'; message-mode
> > says it runs `message-mode-hook' "in addition to any hooks its
> > parent mode `text-mode' might have run" -- it isn't clear to me if
> > these two are compatible wrt what text-mode does.
>
> This text is from `derived-mode-make-docstring'. message-mode is
> derived from text-mode.
So is mail-mode, but the blurb is somehow still different, I don't
know why.
> > . mail-mode uses `mail-yank-hooks'; message-mode doesn't appear to
> > have such a facility.
>
> ,----
> | ;; FIXME make it really obsolete.
> | (defvar mail-yank-hooks nil
> | "Obsolete hook for modifying a citation just inserted in the mail buffer.
> | Each hook function can find the citation between (point) and (mark t).
> | And each hook function should leave point and mark around the citation
> | text as modified.
> |
> | This is a normal hook, misnamed for historical reasons.
> | It is semi-obsolete and mail agents should no longer use it.")
> `----
>
> Should we care about it if is obsolete?
It depends whether people are using it or not, IMO. And we usually
declare a feature obsolete formally, and keep it that way for some
time, before removing it.
> > . message-mode's default value of `message-citation-line-format'
> > seems to produce different results compared to what `r' in Rmail
> > produces.
>
> AFAICS, `r' doesn't cite at all and produce not citation line (neither
> does `C-c C-y' (`mail-yank-original').
I mean the "John Doe writes" stuff vs the "From: ..." etc. produced by
Rmail's `r'.
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2009-07-19 11:41 ` Differences between mail-mode and message-mode (was: message-mode is now default?) Reiner Steib
2009-07-19 12:32 ` Differences between mail-mode and message-mode Sven Joachim
2009-07-19 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-07-19 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-22 7:35 ` Differences between mail-mode and message-mode (was: message-mode is now default?) Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-22 18:46 ` Differences between mail-mode and message-mode Reiner Steib
2009-07-23 3:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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2009-07-19 11:56 ` Differences between mail-mode and message-mode - sending mail (was: message-mode is now default?) Reiner Steib
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2009-07-20 20:42 ` message-mode is now default? Reiner Steib
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