* C-a in body @ 2002-05-03 17:51 Kai Großjohann 2002-05-03 18:42 ` Josh Huber ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Kai Großjohann @ 2002-05-03 17:51 UTC (permalink / raw) WINI C-a in body could have added magic, too? In a cited line, it could go to the end of the ">>" prefix. kai -- Silence is foo! ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: C-a in body 2002-05-03 17:51 C-a in body Kai Großjohann @ 2002-05-03 18:42 ` Josh Huber 2002-05-04 5:06 ` Daniel Pittman 2002-05-15 22:41 ` Justin Sheehy 2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Josh Huber @ 2002-05-03 18:42 UTC (permalink / raw) Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > WINI C-a in body could have added magic, too? In a cited line, it > could go to the end of the ">>" prefix. I'm not sure I'd like this. I actually like the new behavior of C-a in the headers, but in the body when I C-a in quoted text it's almost always to kill the line, or mark a region (to later kill). I'm not sure how often you want to be able to kill someone's quoted text and replace it... (which is why this feature is useful in the headers, IMO) ttyl, -- Josh Huber ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: C-a in body 2002-05-03 17:51 C-a in body Kai Großjohann 2002-05-03 18:42 ` Josh Huber @ 2002-05-04 5:06 ` Daniel Pittman 2002-05-05 12:00 ` Kai Großjohann 2002-05-15 22:41 ` Justin Sheehy 2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Daniel Pittman @ 2002-05-04 5:06 UTC (permalink / raw) On Fri, 03 May 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote: > WINI C-a in body could have added magic, too? In a cited line, it > could go to the end of the ">>" prefix. How about the '> >>|> ]>>' prefix, or the ' daniel> ' prefix or the '~ ' prefix or... Not to mention the fact that I more often want to have it go to the (real) start of the line. :) Daniel -- El sueno de la razon produce monstruos. -- Goya ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: C-a in body 2002-05-04 5:06 ` Daniel Pittman @ 2002-05-05 12:00 ` Kai Großjohann 2002-05-06 1:09 ` Daniel Pittman 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Kai Großjohann @ 2002-05-05 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: ding Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes: > On Fri, 03 May 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote: >> WINI C-a in body could have added magic, too? In a cited line, it >> could go to the end of the ">>" prefix. > > How about the '> >>|> ]>>' prefix, or the ' daniel> ' prefix or the > '~ ' prefix or... That's what I meant... Argh. Why can't I write it right the first time? > Not to mention the fact that I more often want to have it go to the > (real) start of the line. :) Of course, C-a C-a would do that. kai -- Silence is foo! ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: C-a in body 2002-05-05 12:00 ` Kai Großjohann @ 2002-05-06 1:09 ` Daniel Pittman 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Daniel Pittman @ 2002-05-06 1:09 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: ding On Sun, 05 May 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote: > Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes: > >> On Fri, 03 May 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote: >>> WINI C-a in body could have added magic, too? In a cited line, it >>> could go to the end of the ">>" prefix. >> >> How about the '> >>|> ]>>' prefix, or the ' daniel> ' prefix or the >> '~ ' prefix or... > > That's what I meant... Argh. Why can't I write it right the first > time? Actually, I possibly should have been clearer. I see semi-regular emails that Gnus does not identify the quoting prefix correctly on, simply because many people don't know the RFC and use something "pretty" themselves. On this basis, the idea of Gnus mostly but not always going to the start of text, not the start of the citation, is unappealing. Solving the cite mark problem is, of course, AI-complete and should wait 'til we get the general Emacs AI module working first. :) >> Not to mention the fact that I more often want to have it go to the >> (real) start of the line. :) > > Of course, C-a C-a would do that. I would strongly suggest that you do *not* define this as the default functionality. Recent objections aside, most people expect the header names to be "read-only" parts of the text. This assumption does not, I suggest, hold true for the body of an email. I think that making this "clever" action the default would be a bad, surprising and intrusive thing. So, I am happy for you to implement it and all, together with the infrastructure to enable it nicely. Just don't turn it on for me, yes? Daniel -- like torches in the aeon flow even suns flicker and die forgotten as the ages grow eternity is not for you -- Covenant, _Flux_ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: C-a in body 2002-05-03 17:51 C-a in body Kai Großjohann 2002-05-03 18:42 ` Josh Huber 2002-05-04 5:06 ` Daniel Pittman @ 2002-05-15 22:41 ` Justin Sheehy 2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Justin Sheehy @ 2002-05-15 22:41 UTC (permalink / raw) Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > WINI C-a in body could have added magic, too? In a cited line, it > could go to the end of the ">>" prefix. I don't think so. At least 9 times out of 10, if I press C-a in a line with a cite prefix, the next keypress will be C-k. The proposed behavior's primary impact would be to make it more work to trim citations, and nobody wants that. :-) -Justin ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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