Re: Gnus: default position of point in replies

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

On Mon, Nov 28 2011, Marius Hofert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When replying to a message in Gnus (via "R"), the mail looks like this:
>
> <header>
> --text follows this line--
> John Doe <john.doe@foo.com> writes:
>
> (*)> Dear ...
>> ...
>
> The point is by default at the position indicated by (*). Is there an
> easy way to put it in the following position and then insert a blank
> line between the point and the "John Doe <...> writes:"?

If you're using a recent gnus (you might need the git version for this),
you can mess with `message-cite-reply-position' to get different
behavior. I've got a clause in `gnus-posting-styles' that looks like
this:

("\\(mail\\|mairix\\)"
(eval (set (make-local-variable 'message-cite-reply-position) 'above)))

That means that replying to anything from a mail group lets me top-post,
while replying to news keeps the default behavior.

Hope that helps,
Eric

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 of 2011-11-07 on pellet