Slight modification of C-c C-z?

Slight modification of C-c C-z?

[Kai Grossjohann]

When I start composing a message, three lines are always inserted: my
name ``kai'' in lowercase, the signature separator ``-- '', and a
witty (I hope) quote.

Now, C-c C-z is already pretty smart: it doesn't delete the line
before the ``-- '', thus I don't need to retype ``kai''.  But I wish I
could make it so that more lines aren't deleted, such as an additional
``tia,'' to be put before the ``kai''.

Similar things apply to C-c C-v and maybe some other commands.

How about an option message-before-signature-preserve-lines which I
could set to 1 to get the current behavior, to 2 to get the desired
behavior?

tia,
kai
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Re: Slight modification of C-c C-z?

[Matt Simmons]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

    Kai> How about an option message-before-signature-preserve-lines which I
    Kai> could set to 1 to get the current behavior, to 2 to get the desired
    Kai> behavior?

How about something that could take a function so Steve could write
something that would keep C-c C-z from eating footnotes? =)

Matt

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Re: Slight modification of C-c C-z?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Matt Simmons <simmonmt@acm.org> writes:

>     Kai> How about an option message-before-signature-preserve-lines which I
>     Kai> could set to 1 to get the current behavior, to 2 to get the desired
>     Kai> behavior?
> 
> How about something that could take a function so Steve could write
> something that would keep C-c C-z from eating footnotes? =)

I think the right thing to do in cases like this is to defadvice the
function you want changed, which would be `message-goto-signature'
here. 

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