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+From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>\r
+To: 687390@bugs.debian.org\r
+Subject: solution to gnus-alias problems?\r
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+Geoff writes:\r
+\r
+ Hi David,\r
+\r
+ I've found the source of the problem I was having. It seems to be due\r
+ to some interference with the notmuch-mua-reply function and\r
+ gnus-alias. In particular, there was a problem with the part of\r
+ notmuch-mua-reply that inserted the newly setup message contents.\r
+\r
+ Towards the end of the notmuch-mua-reply function, there is the following code:\r
+\r
+ ;; insert the message body - but put it in front of the signature\r
+ ;; if one is present\r
+ (goto-char (point-max))\r
+ * (if (re-search-backward message-signature-separator nil t)\r
+ * (forward-line -1)\r
+ (goto-char (point-max)))\r
+ (insert body)\r
+ (push-mark))\r
+ (set-buffer-modified-p nil)\r
+\r
+ The problem is with the two lines I've marked with a *. Suppose the\r
+ main message reply buffer already contains a signature and looks like\r
+ this\r
+\r
+ [Headers]\r
+ --text follows this line\r
+ --\r
+ [Signature text]\r
+\r
+ The above goes goes to the end of buffer with (point-max), then\r
+ searches back to the beginning of the signature separator, which is\r
+ fine. But then it moves one line up to the beginning of '--text\r
+ follows this line--" and then inserts the newly created message body,\r
+ which means that it inserts it before the '--text follows this\r
+ line--'.\r
+\r
+ I've solved the problem (I think) by adjust the above code as follows:\r
+\r
+ (if (re-search-backward message-signature-separator nil t)\r
+ (progn\r
+ (beginning-of-line)\r
+ (newline))\r
+ (goto-char (point-max)))\r
+\r
+ Hope this helps!\r
+\r
+ Best,\r
+\r
+ Geoffrey\r
+\r