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From: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)
Subject: Re: signatures??
Date: 10 Dec 1995 14:43:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2n390ilp3.fsf@diana.miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: John Perry's message of 10 Dec 1995 06:00:05 -0800

>>>>> "John" == John Perry <perry@vishnu.alias.net> writes:

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

    Steven> (setq mail-signature "\n-- \nsteve@miranova.com baur")

    Steven> This method works with Mail and News, and XEmacs and
    Steven> Emacs.

    John> Can you set mail-signature to a filename rather than a
    John> string? I tried to set it to a filename and that's what
    John> seems to not have worked. Maybe my syntax was wrong.

Nope.  If you want mail-signature to insert a file, you do
(setq mail-signature t)
(setq mail-signature-file "~/.your-signature-file")

mail-signature-file defaults to "~/.signature".

A (silly) portability issue exists between XEmacs and Emacs if you use
this mechanism.  One (Emacs) inserts the "-- " and the other (XEmacs)
doesn't.  :-(.

You always want to have a standard "-- " before a .signature so that
smart readers like Gnus can hide them if desired.
-- 
steve@miranova.com baur


  reply	other threads:[~1995-12-10 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-12-10  0:01 signatures?? John Perry
1995-12-10  1:01 ` signatures?? Roger Williams
1995-12-10  1:42   ` signatures?? Steven L. Baur
1995-12-10 14:00     ` signatures?? John Perry
1995-12-10 22:43       ` Steven L. Baur [this message]
1995-12-10 15:32     ` signatures?? John Perry
1995-12-10 23:08       ` signatures?? Steven L. Baur
1995-12-11  2:07         ` signatures?? Roger Williams

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