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Re: Reply mode bug ?

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From: Joe Wells
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 20:39
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pds@lemming.webo.dg.com (Paul D. Smith) writes:

   The problem is that while regular vm-yank-message sets point and mark
   around the buffer, vm-do-reply w/ include-text doesn't because the
   call to vm-yank-message is within a save-excursion, so mark and point
   aren't set when you finish.

   This isn't that big a deal, except that Supercite expects mark and
   point to be set.  I realize that the attribution has already taken
   place and that works, but I can't use C-c q (sc-fill-paragraph)
   because it expects mark to be set and it isn't...

   Minor point, I realize I can easily set it myself, but ... it's a bug,
   darn it!  :-)

It is indeed a bug, but in SuperCite, not VM.  SuperCite has no right to
expect the mark to remain at any specific location after the citation is
done (obviously the user can move it anywhere), nor may it assume there is
even a mark at all.

Of course, this is nothing compared to the problems you have with
SuperCite when you're replying to multiple messages at once.

-- 
Enjoy,

Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Reply mode bug ?
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