Re: RMAIL usage - attributions

[Lowell Gilbert]

Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> writes:

> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> writes:
>>
>> > I'm used to having in my messages, something like:
>> >
>> > On <some_date> <some_person> wrote:
>> >
>> > How do I achieve the same with RMAIL?
>> >
>> > ^C^Y inserts the entire message, headers and all, but I don't want to
>> > have to edit the headers all the time to get the attribution in the
>> > form that I like. All solutions will be most welcome! TIA...
>>
>> This depends on what mode you use for sending mail.
>> Rmail offers several choices; the defaults have changed with 23.2,
>> so it's a lot easier if your emacs is recent.
>> See the 'Mail-Composition Methods' node in the emacs manual.
>
> I use the standard "Mail mode", i.e. `sendmail-user-agent' (Mail
> mode), as per the manual. So How can it be done using Mail-mode?

One of the more powerful ways is by using the super-cite package, which
seems to be part of the standard Emacs distribution and has its own
manual.  If what you want is easily derivable from what mail-mode
already does, it might be easier to advice the mail-yank-original
function to do your standard edits automatically.

I haven't used rmail in at least ten years, so I can't suggest exact
recipes, but it shouldn't be too hard to work out.

 - Lowell