Re: Unable to delete "References:" lines

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

> Hi,
>
> By a similar reason, I also feel it is inconvenient that I can't
> edit the References header.  Then I use the following hook:

Thank you for this (and I apologize for not replying sooner).

I presume this works because deleting the existing references causes
Gnus to assume that there are none to preserve, correct?


> (add-hook
>  'message-setup-hook
>  (lambda nil
>    ;; Generate the References header and clear the corresponding
>    ;; elements in the `message-reply-headers' buffer-local variable.
>    (let ((references (message-make-references))
> 	 reference)
>      (if references
> 	 (progn
> 	   (mail-header-set-message-id message-reply-headers nil)
> 	   (mail-header-set-references message-reply-headers nil)
> 	   (setq references (split-string references))
> 	   (goto-char (point-min))
> 	   (insert "References: ")
> 	   (while references
> 	     (setq reference (car references)
> 		   references (cdr references))
> 	     (if (> (+ (current-column) (length reference)) 78)
> 		 (progn
> 		   (delete-char -1)
> 		   (insert "\n ")))
> 	     (insert reference (if references
> 				   " "
> 				 "\n")))
> 	   (message-sort-headers))))))
>
>>>>>> In <m3u16fvp4p.fsf@asfast.com>
>>>>>>	Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> wrote:
>
>> One more detail: in the case I mentioned below, the exact behavior is
>> this: I see the deleted "References:" line reappear if I save the
>> message (C-x C-s) before sending.  I therefore believe that this
>> behavior has something to do with saving drafts.
>
>> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>>> I'm writing about something I first noticed in the CVS of ognus several
>>> months ago, and that I have kept forgetting to mention here until now.
>>>
>>> I don't keep much of an address book on line, and if I want to send an
>>> email to someone to whom I've corresponded before, I often will just
>>> take a copy of an old message from that person, respond to it via
>>> `gnus-summary-reply-{wide-}with-original', change the subject, delete
>>> the "References:" line, and continue with my new message to him or her.
>>>
>>> But what I've been noticing over the past few months is that when I send
>>> the outgoing message, the deleted "References:" line reappears.  I
>>> assume that this was done for a good reason, probably to help maintain
>>> the integrity of message threads, but in cases such as these, I'd like
>>> to disable this behavior and send the message out with no "References:"
>>> header at all.
>>>
>>> Is there a variable or hook which controls this behavior?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com