Re: encrypted mails and quoted-printable

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

>>=20
...
> But this means that I still can use ASCII for 7bits and do not need to
> use QP for 7-bit only data.
>
> Have a look at this email - it's signed, contains AFAIK no 8-bit data
> and is still QP.  That's the problem I see.

Ah, yes.  The quote prefix adds trailing SPC on empty lines, which is
not nice.  Attached patch should clean things up.

> =2D-=20

The signature delimiter has trailing whitespace, so it needs QP.  But
this patch should remove all other uses of QP in your article.

--- message.el.~6.109.~	Mon Aug  6 00:05:29 2001
+++ message.el	Mon Aug  6 00:12:58 2001
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@
   :group 'message-insertion)
 
 (defcustom message-yank-cited-prefix ">"
-  "*Prefix inserted on cited lines of yanked messages.
+  "*Prefix inserted on cited and empty lines of yanked messages.
 Fix `message-cite-prefix-regexp' if it is set to an abnormal value.
 See also `message-yank-prefix'."
   :type 'string
@@ -2109,7 +2109,7 @@
 	  (while (< (point) (mark t))
 	    (cond
 	     ((eolp) 
-	      (insert message-yank-prefix)
+	      (insert message-yank-cited-prefix)
 	      (setq last-line nil))
 	     ((looking-at ">")
 	      (if (memq last-line '(nil spaces right-angle quoted))