Re: little nits with 5.2.15

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "ckd" == Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com> writes:

ckd> - point seems to jump around in the summary buffer when selecting
ckd>   the next article; this didn't happen with 5.0.15 (on beta21,
ckd>   but I don't think anything in that area of XEmacs changed).

I don't notice this.  Does the behavior change if you add
(setq gnus-auto-center-summary nil)
to your .gnus?

This kind of sounds like the XEmacs off-by-1 auto-center bug, but I
thought it was fixed.  I discovered how much I hated auto-centering so
I have left it turned off in my environment.

ckd> - [tm bug?] Is there a way to get message-mode to add my
ckd>   .signature after I hit C-c C-c but before tm-edit MIME-fies the
ckd>   message? tm-edit doesn't put in the proper signature separator.
ckd>   (This should only happen in news buffers; mail shouldn't get a
ckd>   .signature unless I ask for it.)

Examine the hook order carefully on message-send-hook, and arrange to
have your .signature inserter put ahead of mime-editor/maybe-translate.

There's message insert-signature, and message-news-p, and
message-mail-p for deciding when to do what.  The message setup hooks
are broken though, so you can't customize your .signature by hook
alone based on News -vs- Mail (unless this has very recently been
fixed).

ckd> - the signature separator, like mail-header-separator, should be
ckd>   added to paragraph-separate when in message-mode so that
ckd>   filling the last paragraph of a message doesn't fill your
ckd>   .signature with it.

Yup.  That is annoying.

ckd> - it would be nice if you could specify which headers should be
ckd>   added at setup time and which should be added at post time. I
ckd>   have a random organization chooser (code available if anyone
ckd>   cares, it uses cookie.el) but it'd be nice to know what
ckd>   organization a post will wind up with while I'm writing it.

Yup.  I'm still a ways from regaining the customization I had with the
separated modes.  (But the gain of having cited text colored makes it
all worthwhile -- I don't know how I lived without it)

ckd> - W w is broken somehow; it's filling things without paying any
ckd>   attention to paragraph separators. I am using filladapt, but it
ckd>   didn't do this before.

Filladapt is partially broken on 19.14.  To fill the paragraph I am
now responding to took a M-q on the bottom line (first line was not
filled).  M-q on the top line did nothing.  C-e hit SPC at the end,
then M-q again.  :-(.

I've also noticed there are line lengths that result in an extra blank
line being inserted when you SPC at the end.  For example, the line
just above is the magic length.  If I move the cursor up to it and hit
SPC at the end, a line gets inserted.  This is wrong, but this is
filladapt/XEmacs and not Gnus.

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