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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: divan@santanas.co.za, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: How to control quoting of original message when replying?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:57:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21reqhz4a.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87turmqogr.fsf@swift.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

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

> 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 ?

Tomi

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-12 16:57 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 [this message]
2021-01-19  8:25   ` Divan Santana

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