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Re: Compose using message-mail?

At Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:00:03 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:

> Why does WL have its own composition mode?

WL doesn't have its own composition mode, it uses SEMI.

> I find it problematic:
> 0. Duplicated functionality has a high maintenance cost
> 1. I'm not used to the keybindings (solvable)
> 2. It has a highlighting bug

Yes, highlighting is buggy. You can press C-l to refresh colors ;)

> The specific highlighting bug is that if I put the cursor in the middle
> of a cited line, e.g.
> 
>   > foo bar baz
>            ^--- here
> 
> hit return, and start typing (as I often do when I need to respond to
> specific points in a post), the new text gets highlighted as though it
> was part of the citation, even though its lines don't start with `>'.

> Is there a way to get WL to use message-mail for composition?

Since WL relies on SEMI, I think, it is possible just to prepare
buffer for custom composer and retrieve it back. I don't know yet,
where to patch WL, but this should be easy.
-- 
wbr, Vitaly