Re: Position of point in reply-with-original

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

On Thu, Feb 03 2011, Antoine Levitt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This might be a very dumb question but I didn't find any posts or doc to
> that effect. When I reply-with-original, the point is in weird
> places. For instance,
>
> *headers*
> --text follows this line--
> On XX, YY wrote
> !> stuff
>
> with point at !. Why isn't it either above or below by default, and why
> isn't there a variable to change this behaviour? I'd expect this issue
> to have been raised by now: how do people cope with this?

I started a thread on this issue either here or in emacs.gnus.user
pretty recently, but now can't find it… Basically the variable
message-citation-line-function dictates what kind of citation line is
inserted, and where point ends up afterwards. All the built-in defaults
for that variable do what you've seen: place point after the citation
line. If you want open space *above* the citation line, and start point
at the top of the buffer, you'll have to write a custom function. Check
out section 3.6 of the info manual for Message (how do you all make
nifty clickable links to Info nodes, by the way?).

Briefly, the "interleaved" quotation style expects that you'd begin
composing your reply somewhere down in the midst of the quoted text.
"Top posting" style expects you to start typing a distinct reply at the
top of the message body. Gnus, having evolved for newsreading, assumes
you don't want to top-post.

Eric