Re: Top posting related changes in the cvs

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Tue, Apr 03 2007, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:

> before the fix, yanking would leave the cursor after the yanked
> messages, contrary to the docstring.  the fix, to regain concordance w/
> the docstring, involves conditionalizing a previously unconditional call
> to exchange-point-and-mark.  i believe the original unconditional call
> was correct (necessary) prior to another change:
>
> 2005-08-01  Katsumi Yamaoka  <yamaoka@jpl.org>
>
>   * gnus-uu.el (gnus-uu-save-article): Use insert-buffer-substring
>     instead of insert-buffer.
>
>   * message.el (message-yank-original): Ditto; set the mark at the
>     end of the yanked message.
>
> insert-buffer-substring inserts before point, while insert-buffer
> inserts after point.  my analysis is that the exchange-point-and-mark
> relied on insert-buffer's behavior, and thus became incorrect after the
> 2005-08-01 change, since point and mark were already in the correct
> order.
>
> my fix (to conditionalize the call) removes the direct dependency so
> that the desired ending position of point will be as documented for
> whatever function is used (now or in the future) to do the insert, as
> long as the inserted text is bracketed by point and mark.
>
> an alternative fix that is less robust against future changes is to rely
> on the behavior of insert-buffer-substring and simply remove the call to
> exchange-point-and-mark.  then we can chase this bug again later for
> hours of fun...
[...]
> i think the behavior, leaving point between the citation and the yanked
> text, is nice.  i was happy to read about it in the docstring.  it seems
> whoever wrote the original (concording) code+docstring was thoughtful.

I gather that you refer to an interactive call of
`message-yank-original' (C-c C-y) after doing a reply/followup without
citing the original (using `r'/`f').  However, when using `R'/`F', I
don't get this behavior anymore: Point is _below_ the quote, which is
wrong.

Bye, Reiner.
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