Re: Fontification of citations in mail-Mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> It is also quite closely intertwined with the Gnus system, such as
> being able to archive copies of posts in certain Gnus groups.

The original intention was very clearly to replace mail-mode and to not be
specific to Gnus.  But since noone else picked it up, it has of course been
difficult to make sure it's really cleanly modularized.

I believe it is desirable to get rid of mail-mode and replace it with
message.el, but I expect it will take some work, and now is not the time.


        Stefan