Re: Position of point in reply-with-original

[Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>]

05/03/11 11:10, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
> Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It's done, you can merge the patch if you want.
>
> Great; applied.
>
> Could you also send a patch for message.texi to document this?

Hmm, it seems my reply never made it to the list, not sure why. Here it
is:



I'm not sure what the convention is for the docs, so I opted for a
slightly higher-level description of what the variable does, rather than
the more technical info in C-h v.

diff --git a/doc/misc/message.texi b/doc/misc/message.texi
index b286399..9914235 100644
--- a/doc/misc/message.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/message.texi
@@ -1930,6 +1930,26 @@ posting a prepared news message.
 @section Insertion Variables

 @table @code
+
+@item message-cite-style
+@vindex message-cite-style
+The overall style to be used when replying to messages. This controls
+things like where the reply should be put relative to the original,
+how the citation is formatted, where the signature goes, etc.
+
+Value is either @code{nil} (no variable overrides) or a let-style list
+of pairs @code{(VARIABLE VALUE)} to override default values.
+
+See @code{gnus-posting-styles} to set this variable for specific
+groups. Presets to impersonate popular mail agents are available in the
+@code{message-cite-style-*} variables.
+
+@item message-cite-reply-position
+@vindex message-cite-reply-position
+Where the reply should be positioned. Available styles are
+@code{traditional} to reply inline, @code{above} for top-posting, and
+@code{below} for bottom-posting
+
 @item message-ignored-cited-headers
 @vindex message-ignored-cited-headers
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