Re: mail-mode: colors in multiply-quoted lines

[jester@panix.com (Jesse Sheidlower)]

In article <jwv62szyg5c.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> I did play around with both modes, and there's a difference in the
>> paragraph filling that's annoying in message-mode. If I have an indented
>> section, as for blockquoting:
>
>>   Something like this, where I might go on for a while with material
>>   from some other source that I want to set off
>
>> In mail-mode, filling this is fine, it will keep the spaces
>> between the paragraphs, keep the indentation and
>> reflow to my fill-column length. But in message-mode, it removes
>> the spaces between the paragraphs and indents the _second_ line
>> much farther, giving a complete mess.
>
>Hmm... I just tried it and indeed the refill doesn't make any sense.
>Seems like a plain bug, please report it via M-x report-emacs-bug.

Done: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7987

Doesn't seem as if there's that much interest in fixing this; or at
least, no one has replied....

>>> To get this kind of multiple-quoting highlighting, you could do
>>> something like:
>>> 
>>> (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
>>> (lambda ()
>>> (font-lock-add-keywords nil
>>> '(("^[ \t]*>[ \t\f]*>.*$" (0 'foo-face)))))
>>> 
>>> where `foo-face' is the face you'd like to use for such quoting.
>
>> Thanks. If the other problems could be addressed, adding hooks would be
>> a perfectly acceptable way to deal with this.
>
>Not sure what other problems you're thinking of here.  Or are you
>talking about message-mode problems?  If so, just replace mail-mode-hook
>for message-mode-hook and that should work for mail-mode.

Well, yes--I meant that if those refill problems in message-mode were
fixed, adding hooks would be an acceptable way of dealing with the
multiple-quoting highlighting. For the moment post-mode is solving this
problem more or less satisfactorily, but I might switch to mail-mode
(with hooks for the quoting) just to stay with something that's core
Emacs.

Thank you.