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From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org,  ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: want my comments above quoted matter
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:11:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tyg8m3bm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwrulh6b.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:33:32 +0100")

Hi Tassilo,

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
>
>> Gentlemen, as you know, it is all the rage these days to put their
>> response _above_ quoted lines instead of below. E.g.,
>>
>>   Kool!
>>   >>>>> "M" == Annette Mom Jacobson <MOM@example.org> writes:
>>   M> Does junior want some bomboms?
>>
>> My question is does Supercite and / or gnus have settings to cater to
>> such young desires?
>
> I don't see a reason to start using that dumb, stupid style of quoting
> only because others also do so.  Message mode has a variable for
> starting your text above the quoted text, and it is easily findable with
> the usual emacs help facilities.  However, I won't mention its name in
> the hope that you come to your senses again.

BTW, I'm problably missing something but I'd like my cursor to be put
below the quoted text, where the signature was before being cleaned up.

Currently the cursor is set to following line:

          Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

which means for me: "do you top posting".

PS: you signature is not respecting the "--\n" marker so it's not
automatically cleaned up. Is there any reason for that choice ?

Thanks
-- 
Francis



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-13 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-11 14:45 jidanni
2011-02-11 14:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-11 15:33 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-11 15:40   ` Gary
2011-02-11 15:46   ` Peter Münster
2011-02-11 15:55   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-11 16:50     ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-11 18:21       ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-11 19:49       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-13 19:33         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-13 19:35     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-13 14:11   ` Francis Moreau [this message]
2011-02-13 15:05     ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-13 15:12       ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-13 15:25         ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-13 15:31           ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-13 15:36             ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-13 16:16               ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-13 16:32                 ` Tassilo Horn

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