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From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: want my comments above quoted matter
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:05:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp2gdlf9.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tyg8m3bm.fsf@gmail.com> (Francis Moreau's message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:11:57 +0100")

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Francis,

> BTW, I'm problably missing something but I'd like my cursor to be put
> below the quoted text, where the signature was before being cleaned
> up.
>
> Currently the cursor is set to following line:
>
>           Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
> which means for me: "do you top posting".

For me, it is put just below that intro line, which means: "read and add
your replies to the original poster's question in the order (s)he stated
them". :-)

> PS: you signature is not respecting the "--\n" marker so it's not
> automatically cleaned up. Is there any reason for that choice ?

"--\n" is not the correct signature marker.  The correct one is "-- \n"
(not the one space after --).  And that's what I'm using.

,----[ http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt ]
| 4.3.  Usenet Signature Convention
| 
|    There is a long-standing convention in Usenet news which also
|    commonly appears in Internet mail of using "-- " as the separator
|    line between the body and the signature of a message.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
Sent from my Emacs



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-13 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-11 14:45 jidanni
2011-02-11 14:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-11 15:33 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-11 15:40   ` Gary
2011-02-11 15:46   ` Peter Münster
2011-02-11 15:55   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-11 16:50     ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-11 18:21       ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-11 19:49       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-13 19:33         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-13 19:35     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-13 14:11   ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-13 15:05     ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2011-02-13 15:12       ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-13 15:25         ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-13 15:31           ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-13 15:36             ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-13 16:16               ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-13 16:32                 ` Tassilo Horn

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