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Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> It will be something like:
>
> (defcustom message-yank-prefix
>   (if (featurep 'xemacs)
>       "> "
>     (if (or (string-match "\\`23\\.1\\.5[0-9]\\.[0-9]*\\'" emacs-version)
> 	    (>= emacs-major-version 24)
> 	    (and (= emacs-major-version 23) (>= emacs-minor-version 2)))
> 	mail-yank-prefix
>       "> "))
>   "doc string")
>
> But I don't find a meaningful difference in it from:
>
> (defcustom message-yank-prefix "> "
>   "doc string")
>
> In other words, I'd prefer to revert the recent changes in message.el.

How about not synching message.el automatically?

If message-mode is to become the default mail mode for Emacs, we need to
be able to make changes to it as part of Emacs.  If that can't be done,
I'd prefer to switch back to mail-mode.