Re: I supercite an extra article, add it to References

Re: I supercite an extra article, add it to References

[lawrence mitchell]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> [For the Luxury edition] C-c ESC C-y runs the command
> message-yank-buffer maybe it should insert any message-ID found in
> that buffer to the References of the message I'm composing,

Probably not, as this may well break user's mind-map of what the
References header does.  I expect that fetching the parent of the
current article to, well, fetch it's parent.  Inserting extra
message-ids would break this.

> as I often use message-yank-buffer to respond to followup to several
> messages all in one followup.  

It's probably best to reference them in the article, you could
probably add a wrapper round message-yank-buffer that stored that
buffer's message-id in a temporary variable, and then inserted it at
the top of the insertion if it didn't match the last message-id in the
current buffer's references header.

> Note that the increase in software complexity means that you should
> only do this if you have lots of time on your fingers.  Also,
> attaching back to two different thread branches is something I don't
> know what news browser can take advantage of so far these days.

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lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>