Re: message-newline-and-reformat and supercite

[Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru>]

"FP" == Francois Pinard writes:

 >> message-newline-and-reformat (M-RET) does not work with supercited
 >> messages, which is very inconvenient: i find this function VERY
 >> useful in general, so it would be great to make it SC-aware.

 FP> How do you use it?

well, i just put cursor to the place where i wish to break the quote,
and press M-RET (as i did just now ;). Then gnus automagically inserts
a prefix (` FP> ' in this case) behind the first line, and re-formats
the rest of the quoted paragraph (making it both look beautigul and
reserving a bit of space :), and puts the point in the convenient
place, so i can type an answer immediately without moving cursor.

 FP> I just tried it, and it seems be convenient for inserting
 FP> comments within a reply, maybe.  Yet, it leaves two white lines
 FP> before point, which is surely one too much.  Also, it does not
 FP> seem to properly discover the fill prefix for the following
 FP> paragraph, at least in my little tries.  The amount of extra work
 FP> needed to repair these things, even if tiny, outweighs the
 FP> benefits of using the command, at first glance.  But since you
 FP> underlined `VERY', above, I guess I may be missing something?
 FP> :-)

Well, did you re-defined the message-newline-and-reformat function
before trying? Let me give an example of how it works for me.

1) the quoted paragraph, as it looked after following up (prepared by
   supercite). Cursor is shown by `_' (at the first line, just after
   the question sign), and is at the place where i wished to insert a
   reply:

 FP> How do you use it?_ I just tried it, and it seems be convenient
 FP> for inserting comments within a reply, maybe.  Yet, it leaves two
 FP> white lines before point, which is surely one too much.  Also, it
 FP> does not seem to properly discover the fill prefix for the
 FP> following paragraph, at least in my little tries.  The amount of
 FP> extra work needed to repair these things, even if tiny, outweighs
 FP> the benefits of using the command, at first glance.  But since
 FP> you underlined `VERY', above, I guess I may be missing something?
 FP> :-)

2) when i press M-RET, the paragraph looks like:

 FP> How do you use it?

_

 FP> I just tried it, and it seems be convenient for inserting
 FP> comments within a reply, maybe.  Yet, it leaves two white lines
 FP> before point, which is surely one too much.  Also, it does not
 FP> seem to properly discover the fill prefix for the following
 FP> paragraph, at least in my little tries.  The amount of extra work
 FP> needed to repair these things, even if tiny, outweighs the
 FP> benefits of using the command, at first glance.  But since you
 FP> underlined `VERY', above, I guess I may be missing something?
 FP> :-)

Note that the rest of the quote was micely reformatted, and cursor was
put at the convenient place. Doesn't this work for you?

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