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[Nathaniel Harari]

Does anyone know how to put a new line *before* a signature?

IE:

My email body

                          <-- Notice the new line before the --- below

---

My signature

I have to do it manually each time and it gets a bit tiresome.

Also, does anyone know how to insert my signature after my reply, but before the reply contents?

I apologize in advance for the newbie questions.

[Husain Alshehhi]

On Sat 09 Jul 2022 at 01:23, "Nathaniel Harari" <nath...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know how to put a new line *before* a signature?
>
> IE:
>
> My email body
> <-- Notice the new line before the --- below
> ---
> My signature
>
> I have to do it manually each time and it gets a bit tiresome.
>
> Also, does anyone know how to insert my signature after my reply, but before the reply contents?

Have you looked into message-signature-insert-empty-line?

From help:

message-signature-insert-empty-line is a variable defined in ‘message.el’.

Its value is t

If non-nil, insert an empty line before the signature separator.

This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
version 22.1 of Emacs.
You can customize this variable.

[Nathaniel Harari]

Thank you!

I'm trying it now, but it doesn't seem to insert an empty line when composing a new email, just when replying to one. But at least it's halfway there.

Also, would you happen to know how to insert my signature before the replied text with the >> ?

[Magnus Therning]

Nathaniel Harari <nath...@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you!
>
> I'm trying it now, but it doesn't seem to insert an empty line
> when composing a new email, just when replying to one.
> But at least it's halfway there.
> Also, would you happen to know how to insert my signature before
> the replied text with the >> ?

I have the following in my config to insert the output from a
command

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(add-hook 'mu4e-compose-pre-hook
(lambda ()
(let ((cmd-string (concat "~/bin/create-sig mail "
(mu4e-context-name
(mu4e-context-current)))))
(setq mu4e-compose-signature
(shell-command-to-string cmd-string)))))
#+end_src

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[Husain Alshehhi]

On Sat 09 Jul 2022 at 22:34, "Nathaniel Harari" <nath...@gmail.com> wrote:

> but it doesn't seem to insert an empty line when composing a new email, just when replying to one.

Interesting. Not sure why. Consider reporting this to emacs (M-x gnus-bug). Seems like a bug to me.

> Also, would you happen to know how to insert my signature before the replied text with the >> ?

I think emacs does bottom posting by default. Consider changing the value of message-cite-reply-position to above. The docs:

,----
| message-cite-reply-position is a variable defined in ‘message.el’.
|
| Its value is ‘below’
| Original value was ‘traditional’
|
| Where the reply should be positioned.
| If ‘traditional’, reply inline.
| If ‘above’, reply above quoted text.
| If ‘below’, reply below quoted text.
|
| Note: Many newsgroups frown upon nontraditional reply styles.
| You probably want to set this variable only for specific groups,
| e.g. using ‘gnus-posting-styles’:
|
| (eval (setq-local message-cite-reply-position 'above))
`----

Also, you might want to checkout the variable message-cite-style (and some pre-configured values in the form message-cite-style-*).

[Nathaniel Harari]

Thank you! Since you say it's frowned upon sometimes, I'll leave it as it is. I'll take your word for it because I haven't really used newsgroups since about 20 years.

[Husain Alshehhi]

On Tue 12 Jul 2022 at 23:33, "Nathaniel Harari" <nath...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you! Since you say it's frowned upon sometimes, I'll leave it as it is. I'll take your word for it because I haven't really used newsgroups since
> about 20 years.

That's just what the doc says, not me. This seems like a preference with
pros and cons to each approach.