Re: Customizing wanderlust reply header

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

csj@myrealbox.com wrote:

> When I invoke (meta-X) wl-summary-reply-with-citation, I get the
> following reply header:
> 
>   At Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:57:52 +0900,
>   somebody wrote:
> 
> I think this reads better as:
> 
>   On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 at 10:57:52 +0900,
> 
> or perhaps even a more verbose:
> 
>   On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 10:57:52 +0900,

I prefer no dates at all, like the above, and have not added them
to MH-E.
 
> I grep'ped for the elisp that handles the reply header to the
> function "wl-default-draft-cite" in the file
> "wl-2.10.1/wl/wl-draft.el".  By changing line 704:
> 
>   (setq cite-title (format "At %s,\n%s wrote:"

I don't use wl, but if that's where the string is inserted it doesn't
look customizable to me.

> I now get when I reply:
> 
>   On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:57:52 +0900,
> 
> Is there a better way to customize the wanderlust reply header
> than hacking the .el file?

Ask upstream to create a defcustom for it?

(I might add one for MH-E, now that the subject has come up.)

Peter