Re: Mutt and top posting
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:03:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/11/08 20:46, Julian De Marchi wrote:
> > Only thing that I would like to know how to change is, by default
> > mutt top posts. I would like to configure mutt to bottom post by
> > default when I reply to an email.
>
> > I have googled for the naswer and only found instructions on how to
> > do this if I was using emacs as the editor. I have nano set as my
> > default editor for mutt, as I am more familar with nano.
> >
> > Any ideas of how I would accomplish this? Or should I start using
> > another editor?
>
> What's the go-to-bottom-of-page command in nano?
With Vim, its "G"
> But that's the answer of last resort...
Why?
You should be editing on the way to the bottom. Pure bottom-posting is
as bad as pure-top-posting. If I had just bottom-posed, you would see
Ron's signature lines, the debian-list signature line, and Ron telling
you to turn on line wrapping. As it is, I left more than I probably
should have.
Doug.
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