john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel) (02/15/89)
I'm havinbg a problem modifying RMAIL to use the '>' symbol when I'm
replying to a message and yanking it in to serve as reference. RMAIL
just likes to indent with a TAB (or 4 or 5 spaces, doesn't matter,
same effect) and I'd like to change it to a more concise format. If
you could please help me with this, I'd be in mucho debt to all of you
out there. Thanks for your time and effort on this!
BTW, calendar is great! Still learning it, but getting to like it
more and more!
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In article <817@wpi.wpi.edu>, john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel) writes: > I'm havinbg a problem modifying RMAIL to use the '>' symbol when I'm > replying to a message and yanking it in to serve as reference. I think mail-yank-original ought to have a hook (say, mail-yank-hook) that would allow the user to do stuff like this. Anyway, I use a variable to indicate the yank prefix (usually " " by default, but you would setq it to "> " or whatever). In the code below, I have also added mail-yank-hook for other customizations you might want to do. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; Ashwin Ram, 2/14/89. (defvar mail-yank-prefix "> " "String to prefix every line in a yanked message.") (defun mail-yank-original (arg) "Insert the message being replied to, if any (in rmail). Puts point before the text and mark after. Prefix each line with mail-yank-prefix. Just \\[universal-argument] as argument means don't indent and don't delete any header fields." (interactive "P") (if mail-reply-buffer (let ((start (point))) (delete-windows-on mail-reply-buffer) (insert-buffer mail-reply-buffer) (if (consp arg) nil (mail-yank-clear-headers start (mark))) (exchange-point-and-mark) (delete-region (point) ; Remove trailing blank lines. (progn (re-search-backward "[^ \^I\^L\n]") (end-of-line) (point))) (mail-prefix-region (mark) (point)) ; Highlight original message. (insert ?\n) (run-hooks 'mail-yank-hook)))) (defun mail-yank-clear-headers (start end) (save-excursion (goto-char start) (if (search-forward "\n\n" end t) (delete-region start (point))))) (defun mail-prefix-region (beg end) "Prefix region with mail-yank-prefix." (interactive "r") (save-excursion (save-restriction (narrow-to-region beg end) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (re-search-forward "^" (point-max) t) (replace-match mail-yank-prefix t t))))) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope this helps. -- Ashwin.
neitzel@infbs.uucp (Martin Neitzel) (02/16/89)
>In article <817@wpi.wpi.edu> john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel) writes: john> john> I'm having a problem modifying RMAIL to use the '>' symbol john> when I'm replying to a message and yanking it in to serve as john> reference. RMAIL just likes to indent with a TAB (or 4 or 5 john> spaces, doesn't matter, same effect) and I'd like to change it john> to a more concise format. Simple problem, long discussion, simple solution. Ashwin Ram had posted some code some time ago, that does just what John is asking for. Based on this re-write of mail-yank-original, I was able to add support for my own preferred citation style. You have just seen it, and you will read a more elaborate rationale for it later. What follows are some notes how Ashwin's version relates to the original and my to Ashwin's. The remarks about my citation style are obviously written with .PROSELYTIZE ON, but I beg you to read these lines, too. And after all this stuff, you get the code. (Perhaps the ``GNU staff'' might consider if they want to join the Small-But-Growing- Help-Stamp-Out-Nested-Citation-Movement and put this code in this form or another into the distributed mail-yank-original. They are invited to do it.) Martin >From: ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram) >Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug >Subject: MAIL-YANK-ORIGINAL enhancements >Posted: Tue Oct 25 16:05:01 1988 Ashwin> Ashwin> When replying to a mail message, it would be nice to have a Ashwin> way to highlight the original message with ">" in the first Ashwin> column as many mailers do. I agree with Ashwin and John that the highlight prefix should be choosable, at least something other than emacs' spaces. However, I can't stand those nested citations that the rest of the world seems to love: In article 123, foo writes: >In article 122, bar writes: >>In article 121, zonk writes: >>> [emacs] These bozos... [more lotsa stuff] >> [vi] > [Emacs] >> [oh no not again] I for one, must tell you... Usually I loose track when the third person jumps into the discussion. Often sooner. WHO is saying WHAT about WHOM ??? (Nested citations have their use in meta-discussions, but are often overused and seldom necessary.) As you might have noticed already, I usually put the author's initials or something like that before all cited lines. Lines that are already citations stay untouched, so they don't get nested. Only the lines by the last author get their new prefix. Obviously this is a little more than ``many mailers do'', and so nobody cares about it. Actually, it is only a 2-liner in "ed": v/^[a-zA-Z]*>/s/^/Ashwin> / g/^Ashwin> $/s/// Only a heuristic, but quite okay and adaptable. Furthermore, I could wrap it into a more user-friendly elisp-function. I called it mail-cite-region. Ashwin> mail-prefix-region is separated out since it is nice to bind it Ashwin> to a key so that you can mark a region and indent it by hand. Ashwin> ^C^I (I for Indent) is the key I use for this. (Idea stolen from Ashwin> gnews). And it made it easy for me to clone mail-prefix-region into my function mail-cite-region. Since the mail-yank-prefix is very likely to change from reply to reply, I dropped it again. ------ snip here, and call it mail-yank.el ("or Pinocchio or what?") ----- ---- then, (require 'mail-yank) in your rmail-mode-hook ------------------ ; Copyright (C) 1989 by Free Software Foundation, Ashwin Ram, Martin ; Neitzel. The standard GNU General Public License applies. Even if ; it is called something different this week... ; Make sure that we re-define the original mail-yank-original (provide 'mail-yank) (require 'sendmail) (defvar mail-cited-line-re "[a-zA-Z]*>" "*Regexp that tells how the beginning of an already cited line in a mail or news article looks like. Used in mail-cite-region to prevent nestings of already marked citations. This regexp is only used at the beginning of a line, so it needn't begin with a '^'.") (defun mail-yank-original (arg) "Insert the message being replied to, if any (in rmail). Puts point before the text and mark after. Just \\[universal-argument] as argument means don't delete any header fields." (interactive "P") (if mail-reply-buffer (let ((start (point))) (delete-windows-on mail-reply-buffer) (insert-buffer mail-reply-buffer) (if (consp arg) nil (mail-yank-clear-headers start (mark))) (exchange-point-and-mark) (delete-region (point) ; Remove trailing blank lines. (progn (re-search-backward "[^ \^I\^L\n]") (end-of-line) (point))) (insert ?\n) (call-interactively 'mail-cite-region) (run-hooks 'mail-yank-hook)))) (defun mail-cite-region (beg end authorname) "Prefix region with a citation mark, prevententing nested citations." (interactive "r\nsShort name or initials of Author? ") (setq authorname (concat authorname ">\t")) (save-excursion (save-restriction (narrow-to-region beg end) (goto-char beg) (while (not (eobp)) (if (or (eolp) (looking-at mail-cited-line-re)) () (insert authorname)) (forward-line 1))))) ;;; lucky guy!, the end-of-file hasn't been trunca -- Martin Neitzel, Techn. Univ. Braunschweig, W.Germany BITNET/EARN: neitzel@dbsinf6.bitnet (mail via bitnet preferred) UUCP: neitzel@infbs.uucp (unido!infbs!neitzel)