From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76310 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?utf-8?Q?Sj=C3=B8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Position of point in reply-with-original Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:10:35 +0100 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87pqr8py5g.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> References: <87tyglxjja.fsf@gmail.com> <87r5bpgk6p.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87k4hhniw6.fsf@gmail.com> <87ipx1yqhz.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87pqr8946o.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296771071 10470 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2011 22:11:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:11:11 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24663@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 03 23:11:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pl7OI-0006Mn-E7 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:11:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Pl7O6-0006hZ-Mc; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:10:50 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Pl7O5-0006hM-Ft for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:10:49 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pl7O4-00028m-0s for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:10:49 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pl7O2-00012R-NS for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:10:46 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pl7O2-0006Am-Iz for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:10:46 +0100 Original-Received: from rain.gmane.org ([80.91.229.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:10:46 +0100 Original-Received: from asjo by rain.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:10:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rain.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: I Dig You, Nice Noizy Toys (Dear) X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97,Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76310 Archived-At: On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:52:15 +0100, Antoine wrote: >>> I'm not trying to start a flamewar as to which one is better, but we >>> should give the users the option. >> Why? > I don't know, somehow I was under the impression that gnus was > customizable :) Me too. You didn't quite answer the question, though? >> I don't understand why you wouldn't want people to jump through hoops >> to do the - arguably - wrong thing? It is entirely possible to do so, >> but why make it easier? > Wow, I wasn't really expecting to get this kind of answer on the gnus > ML. Sorry to disappoint you so. Apparantly the group isn't as homogeneous as expected. > I haven't given much thought as to the different posting styles, and > am not going to enter the debate. 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. You're not going to enter the debate, but on the other hand you want it to work your way. Sounds kind of self-contradictory to me. Anyway, I think you could do exactly what you want by adding a hook rather than modifying the source code of Gnus. Perhaps message-setup-hook? Best regards, Adam -- "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong Adam Sjøgren figures, will the right answers come out?" asjo@koldfront.dk