From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Duke Normandin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RMAIL usage - attributions Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:34:34 GMT Message-ID: References: <44wrqa9dqw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <44lj6o4nlj.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291948117 15927 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 02:28:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:28:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 03:28:30 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQsii-0003B4-1F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:28:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQsih-0000N3-BP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:28:27 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps83.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-X-Sender: dnormandin@select-man.Bytes2Go.com In-Reply-To: <44lj6o4nlj.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.154.105.237 Original-X-Trace: edtnps83 1285518874 75.154.105.237 (Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:34:34 MDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:34:34 MDT Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181499 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:08 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77202 Archived-At: On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Duke Normandin writes: > > > On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > >> Duke Normandin writes: > >> > >> > I'm used to having in my messages, something like: > >> > > >> > On 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