Re: How to control quoting of original message when replying?

Subject: Re: How to control quoting of original message when replying?

Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:25:59 +0200

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Divan Santana


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 12 2021, divan@santanas.co.za wrote:
>
>> Greetings all :)
>>
>> I'm wondering, how to reply to a thread without quoting the older email?
>
> In case of using emacs MUA, press Ctrl-W immediately when entered to reply
> buffer :D

Strange, I never thought C-w / kill-region would work, unless a region
is selected.  I was also using whole-line-or-region mode which breaks
this functionality.  I'll report a bug on there site.

Thanks, C-w does help. :)


>> Ideally I would like to not include a quoted reply by default, unless
>> I've selected the region, in which case the region should be inserted
>> into the reply.
>
> IIRC there is no such feature. If I think hard I could find that possibly
> useful in some times (i.e. patches tol^H^H^Hwelcom)
>
>> I've read this answer in this stack exchange post, but modifying
>> message-cite-style seems to not change the reply in any way.
>
> Which stack exchange post ?

Apologies.

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/14625/how-to-control-quoting-of-original-message-when-replying
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