[PATCH 5/5] Drop harmful reply buffer preparation

[Felipe Contreras]

Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill at shutemov.name>
> 
> Inserting empty lines at the end of reply buffer and switching to insert
> mode are not what user want on reply. It's only annoying if you try to
> comment on patch.
> 
> If a user really wants this kind of preparation it should be implemented
> as an user-specific hook.

Insert mode, maybe, but the empty lines don't hurt. See, with your patch I end up in:

>  			part = orig.find_first_text
>  			part.convert.each_line do |l|
>  				body_lines << "> %s" % l.chomp
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4		<- HERE
> 
> -- 

I cannot type there, and in any case I have to remove those lines, so I end
selecting the text upwards and remove them.

With the current code:

>  			part = orig.find_first_text
>  			part.convert.each_line do |l|
>  				body_lines << "> %s" % l.chomp
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
> 			<- HERE
> 
> -- 

Not much of a difference, I still have to select the lines upwards and remove them.

That is of course if you reply *inline*. You might want to reply to the whole
thing without modifications, in which case the original behavior is more
useful.

I'm not strongly opposed to this, but I don't see why those extra lines would hurt.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras