Re: [PATCH] emacs: bugfix notmuch-mua-reply when signature is present

[Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28 2013, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 08 2013, Geoffrey Ferrari <geoffrey.ferrari@oriel.oxon.org> wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Geoffrey H. Ferrari" <geoffrey.ferrari@oriel.oxon.org>
>>>
>>> When composing a reply, notmuch-mua-reply tries to be smart and cite
>>> the original message by inserting it before the user signature, if
>>> one is present. However, the existing method of backward searching
>>> from the end of the buffer to find the signature separator and then
>>> moving one line up results in the original message being cited in
>>> the message headers. That's because at this point the message looks
>>> like this (with | representing point after searching for the
>>> signature separator):
>>>
>>> From: xxx
>>> To: xxx
>>> Subject: xxx
>>> --text follows this line--
>>> |--
>>> My fancy signature
>>
>> Now that I tested, (with ~/.signature), composing new mail starts with
>>
>> --8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<-
>> From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
>> To:
>> Subject: 
>> Fcc: /home/too/mail/mails/sent
>> --text follows this line--
>>
>> --
>> signature
>> --8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<-
>>
>> Notice the empty line between '--text follows this line--' and '--'
>>
>> In your example, the signature block is -- for some reason --
>> inserted without the empty line.
>>
>>> With this patch, a newline is opened instead, so that the orignal
>>> message is cited above the signature but still in the message text.
>
> ....
>
>>>       (goto-char (point-max))
>>>       (if (re-search-backward message-signature-separator nil t)
>>>-	  (forward-line -1)
>>>+	  (newline)
>>>	(goto-char (point-max)))
>
> If the case is like I think, it should have used (open-line 1) instead.
>
> Anyway, what about:

Hi Tomi, what about [1] instead? KISS and all that.

Cheers,
Jani.

[1] id:cover.1377718199.git.jani@nikula.org


>
>     (goto-char (point-max))
>     (when (re-search-backward message-signature-separator nil t)
>       (forward-line -1)
>       (unless (eolp)
>         (end-of-line)
>         (newline)))
>
> The else clause with (goto-char (point-max)) is unnecessary as 
> with the third argument NOERROR being t point is moved if
> re-search-backward doesn't find match.
>
>>> ---
>>
>> Tomi
>
> Tomi
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