Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] emacs: Use message-citation-line-format in reply

Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] emacs: Use message-citation-line-format in reply

Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:14:13 +0000

To: Aaron Ecay

Cc: notmuch

From: David Edmondson


On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:53:39 -0500, Aaron Ecay <ecay@sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> I’m personally of the opinion that notmuch should just say “the mail
> composition facility is provided by message mode (here is the
> documentation on customizing it)”.

In general, +1.

> One possible step that might ease the transition pain could be for
> notmuch’s emacs interface to have a configuration file (similar to
> Wanderlust’s ~/.wl; I believe Gnus also uses a ~/.gnus).  The idea is
> that this file contains elisp code, and is loaded by notmuch the first
> time any notmuch-related commands are invoked by the user.

This is how my own configuration is stored (in ~/.notmuch.el).

> I’ll close with an example of a nice feature that message mode has
> (which I’ve been really wanting since the reply keybindings changed)
> that notmuch would get for free if it hooked into message mode better:
> the function message-widen-reply takes a reply-to-sender message and
> makes it reply-to-all.

That would require a bunch of work on our side to prepare the data that
message-mode uses, but would indeed be nice.
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