Re: Position of point in reply-with-original

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> I agree with the defvar -> defcustom change.
>
> I think the top-posting setup should be a little more involved,
> mirroring Outlook somewhat.  This is what I use (I got help from the
> Gnus mailing list when I set it up):
>
> ;; outlooky
> (defun sc-style-outlook ()
>   (interactive)
>   (setq
>    message-cite-function 'message-cite-original
>    message-citation-line-function 'message-insert-formatted-citation-line
>    message-cite-reply-above 'is-evil
>    message-yank-prefix ""
>    message-yank-cited-prefix ""
>    message-yank-empty-prefix ""
>    message-citation-line-format
>    "\n\n-----------------------\nOn %a, %b %d %Y, %N wrote:\n"))

Given that this much is needed to get a satisfactory top posting format,
I don't think making the defvar->defcustom change would help much.

Perhaps there should be a new meta-ish variable, say

(defcustom message-cite-style nil
  "The overall style to be used when yanking cited text.
Values are either `traditional' (cited text first),
`top-post' (cited text at the bottom), or nil (don't override the
individual message variables)."
  :version "24.1"
  :group 'message-various
  :type '(choice (const :tag "None" :value nil)
		 (const :tag "Traditional" :value traditional)
		 (const :tag "Top-post" :value top-post)))

This would bind the variables you mention above if set to `traditional'
or `top-post'.

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