From: nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com (Nicolas Pouillard)
Subject: [sup-talk] How to make emacs position my cursor for me
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:06:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225825527-sup-6138@ausone.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225818851-sup-2254@tangerine.lanl.gov>
Excerpts from John Bent's message of Tue Nov 04 18:18:52 +0100 2008:
> Excerpts from Stephen Patterson's message of Tue Nov 04 09:25:42 -0700 2008:
> > On 04 Nov 08, Steve Goldman (sgoldman at tower-research.com) wrote:
> > >
> > > I understand your religious fanaticism about top posting, etc. I'll buy into it if you can tell me how to make sup make emacs position my cursor in the correct place when I hit compose or reply. I want to hit 'c' or 'r' and immediately begin typing, instead of navigate around the buffer and dodge quoted text and a hundred signatures.
> >
> > Not sure how you set the editor for sup, but "emacs +8" will start the
> > cursor on line 8. Mail clients (mutt) normally put the cursor at the top
> > though.
> >
> To set the editor for sup, just edit the :editor: line in
> .sup/config.yaml.
>
> vim has the same +N option but for email editing in sup I prefer
> '+/^\s*\n' which sets the initial cursor position to the first blank
> line (i.e. following the email headers).
Cool, thanks for the tip!
--
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-04 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-04 15:55 Steve Goldman
2008-11-04 16:25 ` Stephen Patterson
2008-11-04 17:18 ` John Bent
2008-11-04 19:06 ` Nicolas Pouillard [this message]
2008-11-04 21:28 ` [sup-talk] Patch: jump to body on compose [was: Re: How to make emacs position my cursor for me] Tomas Pospisek ML
2008-11-04 22:11 ` John Bent
2008-11-10 3:51 ` William Morgan
2008-11-26 21:16 ` Marc Hartstein
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