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From: Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: mail-mode paragraph-\(start\)|\(separate\)
Date: 17 Sep 2007 14:15:55 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnfet315.l97.tyler.smith@blackbart.mynetwork> (raw)

Hi,

I use mutt for my mail reader, with emacs as my editor. I had some
trouble getting the paragraph filling commands to recognize the header
line, which ends with "Joe wrote:"

The following addition to my .emacs seems to have fixed the problem,
but I wanted to check if this is the best way to achieve my goal:

(defun my-mail-mode-hook ()
  (auto-fill-mode 1)
  (abbrev-mode 1)
  (fortune-to-signature)
  (setq paragraph-separate (concat paragraph-separate "\\|.* wrote:$"))
  (setq paragraph-start (concat paragraph-start "\\|.* wrote:$")))
(add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'my-mail-mode-hook)

As I said, this appears to work - meta-q on the first or second lines
no longer puts the first line of the body onto the header line. Is
there a better way to do this?

Thanks,

Tyler

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