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From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: PATCH: Don't quote signature (was: Re: GNKSA and Gnus)
Date: 13 Jan 1998 16:58:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjd8hwwel1.fsf_-_@zuse.+dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 12 Jan 1998 23:15:25 +0100

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Providing an alternative to `message-cite-original' that removes the
> signature might be nice.

Here is a patch to `message-cite-original' which simply doesn't quote
the signature.  I think that in the rare cases where the user *want*
to quote the signature, he can just cut and paste it manually.

1998-01-13  Per Abrahamsen  <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>

	* gnus/message.el (message-cite-original): Don't quote signature.

cd /pack/emacs-20/share/emacs/20.2/lisp/gnus/
diff -c message.el~ message.el
*** message.el~	Fri Sep  5 08:12:49 1997
--- message.el	Tue Jan 13 16:56:11 1998
***************
*** 1598,1608 ****
--- 1598,1612 ----
  (defun message-cite-original ()
    "Cite function in the standard Message manner."
    (let ((start (point))
+ 	(end (mark t))
  	(functions
  	 (when message-indent-citation-function
  	   (if (listp message-indent-citation-function)
  	       message-indent-citation-function
  	     (list message-indent-citation-function)))))
+     (goto-char end)
+     (when (re-search-backward "^-- $" start t)
+       (delete-region (point) end))
      (goto-char start)
      (while functions
        (funcall (pop functions)))

Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Tue Jan 13 16:57:05


  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-01-13 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <199712280107.UAA02498@mail.interpath.net>
1998-01-05 19:54 ` GNKSA and Gnus Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-05 20:31   ` Russ Allbery
1998-01-05 21:29     ` Selective quoting (was: Re: GNKSA and Gnus) Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-12 22:15   ` GNKSA and Gnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-12 22:45     ` Russ Allbery
1998-02-02 18:25       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-12 22:48     ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-01-13 15:58     ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
1998-01-14 23:57       ` PATCH: Don't quote signature (was: Re: GNKSA and Gnus) Kim-Minh Kaplan
1998-01-15  0:15         ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-01-15  8:52           ` Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
1998-01-15 13:55             ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-15 14:16               ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-01-15 14:42                 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-15 14:49                   ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-01-15 15:36                     ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-18 13:16           ` Kim-Minh Kaplan
1998-02-08 15:18       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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