Re: Position of point in reply-with-original

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

04/02/11 09:45, Lars Ingebrigtsen
> 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'.

I don't necessarily agree. My ideal setup would be just
message-cite-reply-above to t. The other variables are a matter of
preference, and shouldn't be tied to the position of point after a
reply.

Then there could be "presets" to mimic the behaviour of various other
clients. I'm not sure they should be as variables, that'd be confusing
as to the behaviour of setting both the preset and the individual
setting. What about functions that set the variables in a buffer-local
fashion and would be triggered by gnus-posting-styles?