[PATCH] emacs: Quote MML tags in replies

Pieter Praet pieter at praet.org
Thu Jan 19 15:21:08 PST 2012


On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:56:16 -0500, Aaron Ecay <aaronecay at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:48:42 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > Did you consider using point-max instead of mark?  IIRC, that mark was
> > very recently introduced which, perhaps irrationally, makes it seem
> > less future-proof to me.
> 
> Well, if the patch goes in and someone changes the code so that it no
> longer sets the mark (in the same way), they will be the one breaking
> stuff, and they’ll have to come up with the fix themself.  [...]

True that.


> [...] Using point-max
> would include the signature in the quoting as well.  It would probably be
> fairly odd to want to put an MML tag in one’s signature, but that doesn’t
> mean that we should break that usage.
> 

So, would I be right to assume MML tags in signatures are never
evaluated to begin with?  Otherwise, there would still be a security
hole, no?


> > 
> > >  
> > >  (defun notmuch-mua-forward-message ()
> > >    (message-forward)
> > 
> > Speaking of future-proofing, it would be good to have a test.
> 
> It would.  ;)  I’ll work on one.
> 

Thanks!

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