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+On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 22:59, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote:\r
+> I've been thinking about this more. =A0message-mode's default citation\r
+> line is really unfortunate and quite possibly insane ("writes" isn't\r
+> even the right tense and what's up with that extra line break?). =A0The\r
+> option to change this is also well hidden (as an experiment, I tried\r
+> navigating to it through customize and couldn't figure out where it\r
+> was, even though I knew what I was looking for). =A0In general, I'm a\r
+> fan of inheriting as many options from Emacs as possible, but people\r
+> *are* going to ask how to change this and the default setting *is*\r
+> going to turn people off of notmuch ("What mail client do you use that\r
+> generates those quirky citation lines?" =A0"I use notmuch!" =A0"Is that,\r
+> like, from the 80's?").\r
+\r
+Agreed. It's a really unfortunate default.\r
+\r
+> So, what about adding a notmuch customize option for selecting the\r
+> citation line format? =A0It could offer a few const choices, including a\r
+> default, sane format, plus the option to enter your own or to fall\r
+> back to whatever message-mode is configured to do. =A0If we do this,\r
+> it's probably best done in a follow-up series, but this seemed like an\r
+> appropriate place to bring it up.\r
+\r
+I think there are two options, which have been discussed a bit before [1]:\r
+\r
+1) Wrap the citation format with a notmuch customization variable,\r
+notmuch-citation-line-format or somesuch. Then set the\r
+message-citation-line-format before calling message-cite-original.\r
+\r
+2) Have notmuch load a user config file (~/.notmuch.el or something)\r
+on startup, and provide a default file that sets nice defaults for\r
+things like message-citation-line-format. The default file could even\r
+be constructed on first run, such that if the user has already\r
+customized some things (like message-citation-line-format) we can keep\r
+their settings.\r
+\r
+Option 2 is obviously more work, but I think it's the right way to go,\r
+at least in the long run. In addition to giving a place to provide\r
+nice defaults for non-notmuch variables, it gives the user a nice\r
+place to specify notmuch-specific config. For example, I use\r
+completely separate init files for notmuch and other emacs usage, and\r
+having a notmuch config file would let me get away from this slightly\r
+kludgey setup.\r
+\r
+In either case, this can probably come as a separate patch series, but\r
+it is good to start discussing it here.\r
+\r
+[1] id:"m2mx9i3onw.fsf@wal122.wireless-pennnet.upenn.edu"\r
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