Re: Position of point in reply-with-original

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Feb 03 2011, Antoine Levitt wrote:

> There's message-cite-reply-above that does the trick, but is incredibly
> condescending by
>
> - insulting you for wanting the option in the first place in the
>   docstring

I think the doc string (I wrote it, as well as the code) is neither
condescending nor insulting:

,----[ <f1> v message-cite-reply-above RET ]
| message-cite-reply-above is a variable defined in `message.el'.
| Its value is nil
| 
| Documentation:
| If non-nil, start own text above the quote.
| 
| Note: Top posting is bad netiquette.  Don't use it unless you
| really must.  You probably want to set variable only for specific
| groups, e.g. using `gnus-posting-styles':
| 
|   (eval (set (make-local-variable 'message-cite-reply-above) t))
| 
| This variable has no effect in news postings.
`----

> - ignoring the setting in news posting

That's a feature.

> - asking you if you're really really sure when you post
>
> It seems it's pretty standard use in mail, 

Yes unfortunately, like HTML, missing line breaks, stupid disclaimers,
"Sent from my whatever...", signatures without a separator, ...

> and almost all "modern" clients (webmails, thunderbird, outlook and
> such) have this as default.

If you want , use it.

> I'm not trying to start a flamewar as to which one is better, but we
> should give the users the option.

You have the option, as you already discovered.

On Thu, Feb 03 2011, Antoine Levitt wrote:
> But I for one would like to post above the cited text, at least in
> mail. In the current state of affairs, I cannot do it without
> modifying gnus' source code.

Not true.

Bye, Reiner.
-- 
       ,,,
      (o o)
---ooO-(_)-Ooo---  |  PGP key available  |  http://rsteib.home.pages.de/