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Re: RMAIL usage - attributions


From: Duke Normandin
Subject: Re: RMAIL usage - attributions
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:29:54 -0000
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23)

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> writes:
>
> > On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> >
> >> Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> writes:
> >>
> >> > I'm used to having in my messages, something like:
> >> >
> >> > On <some_date> <some_person> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > How do I achieve the same with RMAIL?
> >> >
> >> > ^C^Y inserts the entire message, headers and all, but I don't want to
> >> > have to edit the headers all the time to get the attribution in the
> >> > form that I like. All solutions will be most welcome! TIA...
> >>
> >> This depends on what mode you use for sending mail.
> >> Rmail offers several choices; the defaults have changed with 23.2,
> >> so it's a lot easier if your emacs is recent.
> >> See the 'Mail-Composition Methods' node in the emacs manual.
> >
> > I use the standard "Mail mode", i.e. `sendmail-user-agent' (Mail
> > mode), as per the manual. So How can it be done using Mail-mode?
>
> One of the more powerful ways is by using the super-cite package, which
> seems to be part of the standard Emacs distribution and has its own
> manual.  If what you want is easily derivable from what mail-mode
> already does, it might be easier to advice the mail-yank-original
> function to do your standard edits automatically.
>
> I haven't used rmail in at least ten years, so I can't suggest exact
> recipes, but it shouldn't be too hard to work out.

I'll try hacking `mail-yank-original' and see how far I get - either in
hosing everything, or finding a solution. :) Thanks for the input!
-- 
Duke


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