Re: Inserting attribution at a better point

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

  > Enh.  What would you propose that it do?

Well, for simple cases, the message mode default currently generates:

,-----
| >>>>> John writes:
|                  
|   > >>>>> Paul writes:
|   >              
|   > > blurb blurb
|   >
|   > bla bla
`-----

This could maybe automatically changed to:

,-----
| >>>>> Paul writes:
|            
|   > blurb blurb
|            
| >>>>> John writes:
|            
|   > bla bla
`-----

As not all cases are simple, we need a semi-automatic way to do it.
One possibility would be to rearrange the attribution lines (`foo
writes') such that they are in the right order but keep the
nested indentation.  Then one can insert additional attribution lines
as appropriate.

kai
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