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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?  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
> 
> 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 `>'.

That's why I have turned off body highlighting in the draft buffer:

(setq wl-highlight-body-too nil)

-Herbert