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