Re: Mail mode vs message mode

[Teemu Likonen]

On 2009-11-18 20:20 (+0100), Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18 2009, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> We can do it your way if you really object to making the message-mode
>> options default to the corresponding mail-* options, but I'd like to
>> know the reasoning first. (If any of the default values for the
>> mail-* options grate, like mail-from-style, we can change them.)
>
> If the message-mode defaults aren't changed by deriving from mail-*, I
> don't object.
>
> I'd certainly object to any change that makes message-mode less
> "standard" compliant ("standards" like RFCs, GNKSA [1], good common
> practice, ...).  Changing the default `message-yank-prefix' to nil
> violates GNKSA, item 10 b and c:

Yes, please use "> " as *-yank-prefix. It's the only sane choice, the
only one which is compatible with the world.