* [sup-talk] How to make emacs position my cursor for me
@ 2008-11-04 15:55 Steve Goldman
2008-11-04 16:25 ` Stephen Patterson
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From: Steve Goldman @ 2008-11-04 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
Thanks.
--
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* [sup-talk] How to make emacs position my cursor for me
2008-11-04 15:55 [sup-talk] How to make emacs position my cursor for me Steve Goldman
@ 2008-11-04 16:25 ` Stephen Patterson
2008-11-04 17:18 ` John Bent
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From: Stephen Patterson @ 2008-11-04 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
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* [sup-talk] How to make emacs position my cursor for me
2008-11-04 16:25 ` Stephen Patterson
@ 2008-11-04 17:18 ` John Bent
2008-11-04 19:06 ` Nicolas Pouillard
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From: John Bent @ 2008-11-04 17:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
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).
John
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* [sup-talk] How to make emacs position my cursor for me
2008-11-04 17:18 ` John Bent
@ 2008-11-04 19:06 ` Nicolas Pouillard
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
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From: Nicolas Pouillard @ 2008-11-04 19:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* [sup-talk] Patch: jump to body on compose [was: Re: How to make emacs position my cursor for me]
2008-11-04 19:06 ` Nicolas Pouillard
@ 2008-11-04 21:28 ` Tomas Pospisek ML
2008-11-04 22:11 ` John Bent
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From: Tomas Pospisek ML @ 2008-11-04 21:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 11/4/2008, "Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com> wrote:
>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!
Sounds like a reasonable default to me. (Sorry for not putting this into
a Git repo William. In case I get around hacking larger pieces of Sup
I'll do that I promise):
--- sup.rb.orig 2008-11-04 22:19:35.000000000 +0100
+++ sup.rb 2008-11-04 22:23:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -212,7 +212,8 @@
:signature => File.join(ENV["HOME"], ".signature")
}
},
- :editor => ENV["EDITOR"] || "/usr/bin/vim -f -c 'setlocal spell
spelllang=en_us' -c 'set filetype=mail'",
+ :editor => ENV["EDITOR"] ||
+ '/usr/bin/vim -f -c "setlocal spell spelllang=en_us"
-c "set filetype=mail" -c \'+/^\s*\n\'',
:thread_by_subject => false,
:edit_signature => false,
:ask_for_cc => true,
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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
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From: John Bent @ 2008-11-04 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
Excerpts from Tomas Pospisek ML's message of Tue Nov 04 14:28:35 -0700 2008:
>
> On 11/4/2008, "Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >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!
>
> Sounds like a reasonable default to me. (Sorry for not putting this into
> a Git repo William. In case I get around hacking larger pieces of Sup
> I'll do that I promise):
>
You don't want the preceding -c. The tics (') are to protect the
slashes and wildcards from the shell. This is what you want:
'/usr/bin/vim -f +/^\s*\n-c "setlocal spell spelllang=en_us" -c "set filetype=mail" '
I also like passing -X to make it go a little faster in a terminal....
John
> --- sup.rb.orig 2008-11-04 22:19:35.000000000 +0100
> +++ sup.rb 2008-11-04 22:23:45.000000000 +0100
> @@ -212,7 +212,8 @@
> :signature => File.join(ENV["HOME"], ".signature")
> }
> },
> - :editor => ENV["EDITOR"] || "/usr/bin/vim -f -c 'setlocal spell
> spelllang=en_us' -c 'set filetype=mail'",
> + :editor => ENV["EDITOR"] ||
> + '/usr/bin/vim -f -c "setlocal spell spelllang=en_us"
> -c "set filetype=mail" -c \'+/^\s*\n\'',
> :thread_by_subject => false,
> :edit_signature => false,
> :ask_for_cc => true,
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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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From: William Morgan @ 2008-11-10 3:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Reformatted excerpts from John Bent's message of 2008-11-04:
> '/usr/bin/vim -f +/^\s*\n-c "setlocal spell spelllang=en_us" -c "set
> filetype=mail" '
I'll accept a patch to this effect if someone wants to whip one up!
--
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
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* [sup-talk] Patch: jump to body on compose [was: Re: How to make emacs position my cursor for me]
2008-11-10 3:51 ` William Morgan
@ 2008-11-26 21:16 ` Marc Hartstein
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From: Marc Hartstein @ 2008-11-26 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Sun Nov 09 22:51:55 -0500 2008:
> Reformatted excerpts from John Bent's message of 2008-11-04:
> > '/usr/bin/vim -f +/^\s*\n-c "setlocal spell spelllang=en_us" -c "set
> > filetype=mail" '
>
> I'll accept a patch to this effect if someone wants to whip one up!
To discourage top-posting, would it not be preferable to begin with the
cursor on the last line rather than the first line of the body?
:editor: '/usr/bin/vim -f +$ -c "setlocal spell spelllang=en_us" -c "set
filetype=mail"'
(Of course, that might encourage an increased cascade, but there's only
so much the tool author can do to encourage the user to comply with
conventions)
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