Re: Obey message-cite-reply-position from Emacs' message.el

Subject: Re: Obey message-cite-reply-position from Emacs' message.el

Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 19:25:26 +0000

To: David Bremner, Pengji Zhang, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Kristoffer Balintona


Would just like to ping this.

On Mon, Nov 04 2024, Kristoffer Balintona wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 17 2024, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> Pengji Zhang <me@pengjiz.com> writes:
>> [... 7 lines elided]
>>>> The current behavior of notmuch accords with the user values of below
>>>> and traditional but not above.
>>>>
>>>> The notmuch function responsible for the position of the signature
>>>> (or, rather, the position of the citations) is notmuch-mua-reply. I
>>>> have attached a patch that adds a brief snippet which obeys
>>>> message-cite-reply-position when its value is above.
>>
>> Since this is a new feature, we'd normally expect a test or two.
>>
>> you can find some examples in test/T453-emacs-reply.sh
>>
>> d
>
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for letting me know about Notmuch's test suite. I've attached
> two patches. 001 implements the code for the feature, and 002 includes
> the tests for each of the three possible values of
> message-cite-reply-position: above, traditional, and below.
>
> Regarding the expected behavior: a value of above and below are
> self-explanatory, however, a value of traditional is unclear. The
> docstring for message-cite-reply-position states:
>
>     Where the reply should be positioned.
>     If ‘traditional’, reply inline.
>     If ‘above’, reply above quoted text.
>     If ‘below’, reply below quoted text.
>
> As far as I can tell, there is no effective difference between the
> values of traditional and below There is hardly any documentation on the
> matter in message.el, but looking at the source code traditional doesn't
> seem to be treated specially. So I've treated them as equivalent in my
> test cases.
>
> Please let me know if any modifications are in order.

-- 
In gratitude,
Kristoffer
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