On Tue, Sep 04 2012, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04 2012, Tomi Ollila wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 04 2012, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jul 26 2012, Michal Sojka wrote: >>>> When one wants to customize the format of reply message, there nothing >>>> to tell the user how to do it. Without knowing that construction of >>>> reply buffer is actually implemented in the message package, it seems >>>> that replying cannot be customized. >>>> >>>> Because I was getting annoyed by the empty line the between citation >>>> line and the quoted message, I figured out that changing this is fairly >>>> easy when one knows what to customize. >>>> >>>> This patch adds notmuch-reply customization group that that contains >>>> references to the relevant customization options. The new group is easy >>>> to find as it is shown as a result of running "M-x customize-group RET >>>> notmuch RET". >>> >>> Ping. >>> >>> Any objections against applying? >> >> Nobody dares to say anything due to infamiliriaty of this spesific case ;/. >> >> I could not find any reference this has been made before. > > It's at least documented at > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Group-Definitions.html > > The argument members is a list specifying an initial set of > customization items to be members of the group. However, most often > members is nil, and you specify the group's members by using the > :group keyword when defining those members. > >> I could not find any discussion about this issue. >> >> With little effort I could not extract the customization tree to >> stdout I could have attempted to grep whether there is same variable >> in many groups. > > I tried to grep emacs sources and found the following: > > (defgroup message '((user-mail-address custom-variable) > (defgroup gnus-message '((message custom-group)) > (defgroup ps-print-printer '((lpr custom-group)) > (defgroup customize '((widgets custom-group)) > (defgroup font-lock '((jit-lock custom-group)) > > At least the first line corresponds exactly to what is proposed in my > patch. Yes... I was looking whether the same customization variable has been put into multiple groups (now those are also in message-insertion group like you have in your patch). (So far) I haven't seen that to be done (not that it forbids doing so, just that there aren't issues about that). >From consistency point of view all the customization variables in notmuch groups start with "notmuch-" and these "message-" breaks this... An alternative to the above could be the following: (defgroup notmuch-reply '((notmuch-message-replied-tags custom-variable) (message-insertion custom-group)) "..." I.e. first moving notmuch-message-replied-tags to this new group and (only) referencing the message-insertion group from notmuch-reply group (the message-citation-line-format & message-citation-line-function are the first variables in message-insertion group, which is nice). > Cheers, > -Michal Tomi