* I hate the new indentation in message-mode
@ 2001-09-17 14:02 Didier Verna
2001-09-18 17:49 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Didier Verna @ 2001-09-17 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
In the good ol'days, I used to start all my paragraphs with a simple
TAB, including paragraphs answering to quotations. Now, here's what it gives
me. This is stupid. I hate that. I'm getting conservative. I'm against
technology. I'm for simple and natural things. I'm leaving computers. I'll
switch back to my granny's plain ol'type writer.
> This is a quotation line
I need two tabs to write this and it doesn't give me what I want.
> Thiiiiiis is another quotation line
No, this is stupid. I want a real tab.
> Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiis is yet another quotation line
Damn :-(
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-17 14:02 I hate the new indentation in message-mode Didier Verna
@ 2001-09-18 17:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-18 21:27 ` Steve Youngs
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2001-09-18 17:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
> In the good ol'days, I used to start all my paragraphs with a
> simple TAB, including paragraphs answering to quotations. Now,
> here's what it gives me. This is stupid. I hate that.
Hm. I thought that indent-relative was the best thing since sliced
bread...
Anyway, M-i should do what you want. If you don't use the completion
functionality of message-tab, you can also just rebind the TAB key.
If you do use the completion functionality, you could modify the
source.
If enough people want your behavior, maybe a user option could be
introduced.
kai
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-18 17:49 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2001-09-18 21:27 ` Steve Youngs
2001-09-19 12:04 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-19 8:16 ` Didier Verna
2001-09-20 5:39 ` Karl Eichwalder
2 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Steve Youngs @ 2001-09-18 21:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
|--==> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
KG> Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
>>In the good ol'days, I used to start all my paragraphs with a
>>simple TAB, including paragraphs answering to quotations. Now,
>>here's what it gives me. This is stupid. I hate that.
KG> Hm. I thought that indent-relative was the best thing since sliced
KG> bread...
The bread's gone moldy.
KG> Anyway, M-i should do what you want. If you don't use the completion
KG> functionality of message-tab, you can also just rebind the TAB key.
KG> If you do use the completion functionality, you could modify the
KG> source.
Personally, I use M-TAB completion in the To|Cc etc headers (from
BBDB). So, for me at least, rebinding TAB wouldn't cause me any
suffering.
But really, when you are in the middle of editing some text, a TAB
should be a TAB. Not some other fancy thing. And most people expect
their TABs to be consistent.
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-18 17:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-18 21:27 ` Steve Youngs
@ 2001-09-19 8:16 ` Didier Verna
2001-09-20 5:39 ` Karl Eichwalder
2 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Didier Verna @ 2001-09-19 8:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Gnus Beta Testers
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
>
>> In the good ol'days, I used to start all my paragraphs with a
>> simple TAB, including paragraphs answering to quotations. Now,
>> here's what it gives me. This is stupid. I hate that.
>
> Hm. I thought that indent-relative was the best thing since sliced
> bread...
:-)
> Anyway, M-i should do what you want.
Yes I know. What I really meant was that people used to having TAB
produce a TAB (sounds logical right ? ;-) and suddenly facing a fancy^D^D^Dodd
behavior will for sure start complaining, and I think they'll be right.
> If enough people want your behavior, maybe a user option could be
> introduced.
Or the current bindings could just be exchanged ?
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-18 21:27 ` Steve Youngs
@ 2001-09-19 12:04 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-19 14:47 ` Paul Jarc
2001-09-19 22:51 ` Steve Youngs
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2001-09-19 12:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> writes:
> Personally, I use M-TAB completion in the To|Cc etc headers (from
> BBDB). So, for me at least, rebinding TAB wouldn't cause me any
> suffering.
But TAB can do completion in Newsgroups headers, too. And more
headers if you add the entry in message-completion-alist.
> But really, when you are in the middle of editing some text, a TAB
> should be a TAB. Not some other fancy thing. And most people expect
> their TABs to be consistent.
A matter of taste, I guess.
kai
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-19 12:04 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2001-09-19 14:47 ` Paul Jarc
2001-09-19 22:51 ` Steve Youngs
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From: Paul Jarc @ 2001-09-19 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> writes:
>> Personally, I use M-TAB completion in the To|Cc etc headers (from
>> BBDB). So, for me at least, rebinding TAB wouldn't cause me any
>> suffering.
>
> But TAB can do completion in Newsgroups headers, too. And more
> headers if you add the entry in message-completion-alist.
Could it be made to give the old behavior when not within one of those
fields?
paul
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-19 12:04 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-19 14:47 ` Paul Jarc
@ 2001-09-19 22:51 ` Steve Youngs
2001-09-20 9:38 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Steve Youngs @ 2001-09-19 22:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
|--==> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
KG> Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> writes:
>>Personally, I use M-TAB completion in the To|Cc etc headers (from
>>BBDB). So, for me at least, rebinding TAB wouldn't cause me any
>>suffering.
KG> But TAB can do completion in Newsgroups headers, too. And more
KG> headers if you add the entry in message-completion-alist.
Would it be possible to have the completion in the headers and revert
to normal TAB behaviour outside of the headers?
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-18 17:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-18 21:27 ` Steve Youngs
2001-09-19 8:16 ` Didier Verna
@ 2001-09-20 5:39 ` Karl Eichwalder
2001-09-20 9:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Karl Eichwalder @ 2001-09-20 5:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Gnus Beta Testers
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> If enough people want your behavior, maybe a user option could be
> introduced.
Is this a vote? I "complained" earlier. Please, revert to the old
behavior we've had for years. Don't force users to press M-i when all
they want is TAB.
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-19 22:51 ` Steve Youngs
@ 2001-09-20 9:38 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2001-09-20 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> writes:
> Would it be possible to have the completion in the headers and revert
> to normal TAB behaviour outside of the headers?
I think it would be useful to have a variable for the function to
execute in the body.
kai
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-20 5:39 ` Karl Eichwalder
@ 2001-09-20 9:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-24 10:19 ` Didier Verna
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2001-09-20 9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Gnus Beta Testers
Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net> writes:
> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> If enough people want your behavior, maybe a user option could be
>> introduced.
>
> Is this a vote? I "complained" earlier. Please, revert to the old
> behavior we've had for years. Don't force users to press M-i when all
> they want is TAB.
I've now introduced a variable message-tab-body-function. It defaults
to indent-relative, though.
Maybe the best thing to do is to default to the function that's used
in text mode. What do you all think?
kai
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-20 9:42 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2001-09-24 10:19 ` Didier Verna
2001-09-25 10:22 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-27 4:38 ` Samuel Padgett
0 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Didier Verna @ 2001-09-24 10:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Karl Eichwalder, Gnus Beta Testers
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> I've now introduced a variable message-tab-body-function. It defaults to
> indent-relative, though. Maybe the best thing to do is to default to the
> function that's used in text mode. What do you all think?
Having yet another variable is overkill to me[1], but I don't mind, as
long as the default is switched back to tab-to-tab-stop. Plain TAB, that's
all. That's what people have been getting for *years*.
Footnotes:
[1] as I said earlier, puting indent-relative on M-i would have been
sufficient to me.
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94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Fax.+33 (1) 44 08 01 99 didier@xemacs.org
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-24 10:19 ` Didier Verna
@ 2001-09-25 10:22 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-27 4:38 ` Samuel Padgett
1 sibling, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2001-09-25 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Gnus Beta Testers
Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
> Having yet another variable is overkill to me[1], but I don't mind,
> as long as the default is switched back to tab-to-tab-stop. Plain
> TAB, that's all. That's what people have been getting for *years*.
It's not overkill. I want indent-relative!
Therefore, a variable is clearly the way to go. Then everybody can
have their preferred behavior.
kai
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* Re: I hate the new indentation in message-mode
2001-09-24 10:19 ` Didier Verna
2001-09-25 10:22 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2001-09-27 4:38 ` Samuel Padgett
1 sibling, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Samuel Padgett @ 2001-09-27 4:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
> Footnotes:
> [1] as I said earlier, puting indent-relative on M-i would have been
> sufficient to me.
Eee. I'm used to Emacs changing the meaning of the TAB key on me, but
knowing that M-i is always tab-to-tab-stop is comforting. I'm not
sure changing M-i in just message-mode is a good idea.
Sam
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