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From: Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: How to control quoting of original message when replying?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:25:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh15qqnc.fsf@swift.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21reqhz4a.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi>

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 12 2021, divan@santanas.co.za wrote:
>
>> Greetings all :)
>>
>> I'm wondering, how to reply to a thread without quoting the older email?
>
> In case of using emacs MUA, press Ctrl-W immediately when entered to reply
> buffer :D

Strange, I never thought C-w / kill-region would work, unless a region
is selected.  I was also using whole-line-or-region mode which breaks
this functionality.  I'll report a bug on there site.

Thanks, C-w does help. :)


>> Ideally I would like to not include a quoted reply by default, unless
>> I've selected the region, in which case the region should be inserted
>> into the reply.
>
> IIRC there is no such feature. If I think hard I could find that possibly
> useful in some times (i.e. patches tol^H^H^Hwelcom)
>
>> I've read this answer in this stack exchange post, but modifying
>> message-cite-style seems to not change the reply in any way.
>
> Which stack exchange post ?

Apologies.

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/14625/how-to-control-quoting-of-original-message-when-replying

      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-19  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-12 13:22 How to control quoting of original message when replying? divan
2021-01-12 16:57 ` Tomi Ollila
2021-01-19  8:25   ` Divan Santana [this message]

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