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Re: mail-mode: colors in multiply-quoted lines
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: mail-mode: colors in multiply-quoted lines |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:45:50 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I'm using mail-mode to compose messages, using Mutt for the actual
> mailing. That is, I'm only interested in the composition features (good
> handling of reformatting quoted paragraphs, signatures, etc.), I don't
> care about the actual sending of messages, so message-mode isn't
> relevant to me if the only real difference is in the ability to add MIME
> attachments and so forth.
I recommend you try and use message-mode rather than mail-mode (the
differences should be minor, other than the new features like MIME
handling).
But I don't think that will make a difference to your problem.
To get this kind of multiple-quoting highlighting, you could do
something like:
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(font-lock-add-keywords nil
'(("^[ \t]*>[ \t\f]*>.*$" (0 'foo-face)))))
where `foo-face' is the face you'd like to use for such quoting.
> mail-mode seems only to colorize all quoted text, i.e. it doesn't color
> text differently depending on the level of quoting. Is there any way to
> get this functionality?
Not currently, no.
> In the Mutt pager, for example you can specify four different colors
> for different levels of quoting; it would be nice to get this when
> I go into the message in Emacs too.
Gnus does it when displaying messages, but not when editing them.
Bringing the two closer to each other would be good.
> I've had a look at post-mode, which does do this, but it seems to be not
> widely used or supported. Is it considered a well-done mode?
I have no idea.
Stefan