Re: [John Moreno <phenix@interpath.com>] Re: GNKSA and Gnus

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Maybe they're talking about digests?  I found the feature of TM to be
> able to hit "a" (or was it "f") on the header line of a submessage quite
> useful.  It was a MIME multipart message with a message/rfc822 part, I
> think, where I found that useful.

Hmm.  Okay.  I can buy this, although I encounter very, very few digests.
They're common in some varieties of mailing list, but pretty uncommon on
Usenet overall (although admittedly I have seen them).  Most of what I see
on Usenet in digest format are FAQs.

> As the evaluation form doesn't really say, and I like to see the good
> things in people... :-)

Right.  :)

> I would like to see the signature omitting stuff, though.

So would I, although I don't really need it.  Following is a bit of elisp
code I wrote that has been referred to by at least one friend of mine as
"the best reason to switch to using emacs to post and send mail that I've
seen."  :)

;; Delete anything between the current point and the signature (defined as
;; the block starting with "-- " at the beginning of a line.  *Extremely*
;; useful for killing quoted text.
(define-key message-mode-map "\C-cz" 'rra-kill-to-signature)
(defun rra-kill-to-signature ()
  "Deletes all text up to the signature."
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (push-mark (point) t t)
    (re-search-forward "^-- ")
    (forward-line -1)
    (kill-region (mark) (point))))

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>