Re: Picking Nits (sgnus v0.79/tm7.52)

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

>>>>> "lmi" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

lmi> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>> 2.  I don't care for the sequence of events when one selects a mail
>> response function.  The subject prompt comes first, and the text
>> is poorly worded -- it should just ask for a Subject:.  The
>> currently selected article then disappears.  Very often I end up
>> splitting the frame and putting the *Article ... buffer in the
>> other window.  This is what Gnus used to do, and I guess I miss
>> it.  The least you could do would be to make the *Article* buffer
>> be the default target for C-X 4 b or C-X 5 b ...

This is poorly worded, let me rephrase the first part.

lmi> Uhm...  Are you ever prompted for anything when using message.el?  I
lmi> thought those prompts had gone the ways of the dinosaurs.  What
lmi> commands prompt?

Type ``m'' while in the summary buffer.  I then get a prompt ``Empty
Subject enter value'', then get plopped in the message-mode buffer
sitting on the To: line.  This goes exactly backwards to what I've
been accustomed to.  I would expect a prompt for To: first, then
Subject:.

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