Re: bug in message-message mode?

[Emanuel Berg]

Tassilo Horn wrote:

>> In `message-mode', when I have point at C (LINE FEED (LF))
>> and a equals HYPHEN-MINUS and B SPACE, i.e.
>>
>> AABC
>>    ^ here :)
>>
>> and do `message-beginning-of-line', nothing happens!
>
> I guess there is some special treatment for the signature
> separator "-- \n". The two hyphens and the space have
> a `field' property value `signature' which might explain the
> behavior, see (info "(elisp) Fields").

OK, but why?

The --- after the header is also a delimiter, but there
it works. (See `rfc822-goto-eoh'.)

There's no reason it should work on the signature delimiter.

Or is there?

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