Re: Gnus: default position of point in replies

[Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>]

On 2011-11-28, at 08:24 , Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 28 2011, Marius Hofert wrote:
> 
>> Dear Eric,
>> 
>> thanks for helping, that worked.
>> However, the signature is now also placed above the original message.
>> Assuming you decide to reply "inline" (to certain parts of the message
>> individually), then your reply starts with the signature... This would
>> require to cut the signature and put it in the message foot...
>> Is there any way to solve that?
> 
> Huh, good point -- I hadn't even really noticed. Come to think of it it
> would be nice both have the signature at the bottom, and to not add
> another one at all if one of your previous quoted messages already
> contains it. I'm crossposting to gnus.general, where we're more likely
> to get someone who knows…
> 
> Eric
> 

Thanks, Eric.
For forwarding messages, I found "Message Forward Before Signature" (M-x customize-group, Message Forwarding), it would be nice to have something similar for replies. Another point I realized is that if you reply from an account without signature, I still get the separator "-- " in the beginning of the reply. That might need a fix, too (?).

Cheers,

Marius


>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Marius
>> 
>> On 2011-11-28, at 02:07 , Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Nov 28 2011, Marius Hofert wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> When replying to a message in Gnus (via "R"), the mail looks like this:
>>>> 
>>>> <header>
>>>> --text follows this line--
>>>> John Doe <john.doe@foo.com> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> (*)> Dear ...
>>>>> ...
>>>> 
>>>> The point is by default at the position indicated by (*). Is there an
>>>> easy way to put it in the following position and then insert a blank
>>>> line between the point and the "John Doe <...> writes:"?
>>> 
>>> If you're using a recent gnus (you might need the git version for this),
>>> you can mess with `message-cite-reply-position' to get different
>>> behavior. I've got a clause in `gnus-posting-styles' that looks like
>>> this:
>>> 
>>> ("\\(mail\\|mairix\\)"
>>> (eval (set (make-local-variable 'message-cite-reply-position) 'above)))
>>> 
>>> That means that replying to anything from a mail group lets me top-post,
>>> while replying to news keeps the default behavior.
>>> 
>>> Hope that helps,
>>> Eric
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> GNU Emacs 24.0.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.6)
>>> of 2011-11-07 on pellet
>>> 
>>> 
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> -- 
> GNU Emacs 24.0.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.6)
> of 2011-11-07 on pellet
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