[PATCH v4 0/7] emacs: Improve the cited message included in replies

[David Edmondson]

On Sat, Nov 07 2015, Mark Walters wrote:
> This is a rebase and somewhat tweaked version of dme's series from last year
> id:1399897769-26809-1-git-send-email-dme at dme.org

I'm a bad person to review these changes, having written some of
them. Could someone else take a look?

> One particular motivation for this series is that it fixes a long
> standing bug we have that replying to a message with an rfc822 part
> completely omits that part. It also fixes the bug whereby we don't
> include application/octet-stream parts which are actually text/plain
> (and thus are displayed in show mode).
>
> This series makes the reply code use the same code as the show code so
> everything works as expected: the reply buffer looks essentially the
> same as the show buffer.
>
> There is one slight difference: the user might want different part
> headers displayed when replying; both because the audience is
> different (a non-notmuch using recipient) and because the buttons
> don't "work" (you can't click on them to show or view a part).
>
> Dme and I disagree on which of these we would like to see so make that
> customisable.
>
> The key change is patch 3 which switches how reply works. Also note
> that patch 2 is almost all whitespace change as the changes modify the
> indentation.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mark
>
>
> David Edmondson (6):
>   emacs/show: Re-arrange determination if a part header is necessary
>   emacs/show: Accommodate the lack of part header buttons
>   emacs/mua: Generate improved cited text for replies
>   emacs/show: Remove the 'no-buttons option of
>     `notmuch-show-insert-bodypart'
>   emacs/show: Make the insertion of part headers overridable.
>   emacs/mua: Let user specify which parts get a header in citations.
>
> Mark Walters (1):
>   test: fix the tests for the new reply code
>
>  emacs/notmuch-mua.el  |  60 ++++++++++-----------
>  emacs/notmuch-show.el | 141 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  test/T310-emacs.sh    |  32 ++++++++++++
>  test/test-lib.el      |   4 ++
>  4 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
>
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