From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15638 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Inserting attribution at a better point Date: 15 Jul 1998 13:50:42 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154634 23220 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:57:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA12755 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:45:57 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17600 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAT29424; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:16:22 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:41:53 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00020 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:41:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA05202 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:41:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id QAA02014; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:41:22 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id NAA23815; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:50:42 +0200 Original-To: Justin Sheehy In-Reply-To: Justin Sheehy's message of "14 Jul 1998 17:02:40 -0400" Original-Lines: 38 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.23/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15638 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15638 >>>>> Justin Sheehy 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 -- You ate somebody? -- Just a leg. -- That's terrible! -- Not with mustard. (Terry Pratchett: Interesting Times)