Should *mu4e-view* faces be lost upon pressing 'R'?

[myglc2]

Should *mu4e-view* faces be lost upon pressing 'R'?

Here is my situation. I am happily reading in *mu4e-view*. There were multiple sends/replies and the message is very informatively colored by different faces showing  parts that were sent/received previously. I am a happy camper ;). Now I hit 'R' and WAAH! All my informative faces disappear. All but this line ...

On 04/11/2017 at 21:03 <sender> writes: 

... is displayed in a single face.

Is it intended to work that way?

If so, would it not be possible to retain the informative faces that were shown when reading the message in a "reply" buffer?

TIA - George

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Wed, Apr 12 2017, myglc2 wrote:
> Is it intended to work that way?

Sort of. Most of the mail composition behavior is inherited from
message-mode which handles one level of citation only.

> If so, would it not be possible to retain the informative faces that
> were shown when reading the message in a "reply" buffer?

There's a feature request in the emacs bug tracker (#25022) actually.

It's not to hard to implement, but it would be nice to have this in
message-mode itself and not implement it in mu4e.

[myglc2]

Hey Yuri, many thanks for the explanation. I agree it would make
more sense to do it in message-mode. Best, George