Re: message-signature-file not working on Win32 v5.11

Re: message-signature-file not working on Win32 v5.11

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> Allan J Mui wrote:

> Gnus v5.11
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
[...]
> (setq message-signature-file "_msg-sig")

> I created a message signature file "_msg-sig" but when I try to sign
> my message with it nothing happens.

Could you try using a full path name like "c:/foo/bar/_msg-sig"
or "~/_msg-sig"?

> The analogous feature for email signing works perfectly. I would
> like to control whether to sign or not by insert-message-signature.
> If I use the variable message-signature it works.  It seems to make
> no difference whether message-signature is set to nil or not, in
> both cases the message-signature-file is ignored.

To make Message use `message-signature-file', please set
`message-signature' to t.

(info "(message)Insertion Variables")
,----
| `message-signature'
|      String to be inserted at the end of the message buffer.  If `t'
|      (which is the default), the `message-signature-file' file will be
|      inserted instead.  If a function, the result from the function
|      will be used instead.  If a form, the result from the form will be
|      used instead.  If this variable is `nil', no signature will be
|      inserted at all.
`----

(In the upstream Gnus, you can use `message-signature-directory'
to control the directory part of the signature file name.)

Regards,