Re: Automatically selecting cited text

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:47:10 +1000 Brett Randall <brett@hillsong.com> wrote: 

BR> A few years ago when I *USED* to use Gnus (moving back now), I
BR> remember that if I followed up an e-mail, the cited text would be
BR> automatically selected from the bottom of the e-mail up to underneath
BR> the attribution. I could arrow down to the end of where I wanted to
BR> quote, hit C-w and delete the rest. This made it great for getting rid
BR> of signatures, disclaimers, etc. I can't remember if that was a
BR> feature of SuperCite, TrivialCite, Gnus itself... Does anyone know how
BR> I "turn this on"?

Hm, I think you're saying the mark was set at the beginning of the
message body.  I don't think this is on by default nowadays or if it
ever was (I have used both SC and TC in addition to the default Gnus
citations), and I couldn't find a setting that does it, but it should be
easy to write a function and add it to the appropriate hook that does:

1) (message-goto-body)
2) set mark

Ted