Re: Mail mode vs message mode

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> They may not be serious, but as for `message-yank-prefix', it may
>>> not be easy to users to find the way to make Gnus work as before
>>> (the new behavior is that cited lines are prefixed only with three
>>> space characters).
>
>> This is not acceptable IMHO.  We need to find a solution for this.
>> I don't have a good idea, though.
>
> It should be pretty easy to do something like
>
>   (defcustom message-foo
>       (let ((def mail-foo))
>         (if (acceptable def) def fallback))
>     ...)

That kind of defeats the purpose.