Re: Message goto signature

[Richard Riley]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 05 2009, Richard Riley wrote:
>
>> Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Actually I don't see any use case where moving between the separator
>>> and the signature is usefull...
>
> To edit the signature?
>
> `message-goto-signature' is used in several other functions.
>
>> Just as some bg info, I believe the cursor is put at the start to
>> encourage you to snip replies.
>
> Correct.
>
>> I think this code that follows is bad style in so many ways, but
>> something like this. I guess you would use a backward search for sig
>> separator function instead but this works for now:
>>
>> (defadvice message-goto-signature (after message-goto-signature
>> activate)(progn (previous-line)(previous-line)))
>
> I'm quite sure this would break several Gnus functions.
>
> Bye, Reiner.

Thank god I heavily caveated it then :-;


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