[Gllug] Top-quoting

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Tue Jul 29 21:41:42 UTC 2003


On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:31:46PM +0100, Liam Delahunty wrote:
> Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> >It's the default way Outlook does its quoting, and so has become
> >considered "standard" by many.  It is, however, a sign of laziness.
> 
> It's also the standard way for PINE, and even mutt; one has to shift g to
> get down the bottom (if using vi) - automatic to do, but to start with
> you're at the top of the message.

You can use the "set editor" command in your muttrc to change this behaviour
(you can set it to "vim +G" for example, or, possibly better, "vim +/--").

Pete

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