Re: Trimming email replies in gnus/message-mode

On 2026-04-22 11:58, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> To those of you who uses gnus+message-mode in your daily lives; how do 
> you
> trim quoted text when replying (posting) emails?
> 
> Do you manually remove excess reply level texts, or do you have some 
> function
> or enabled variables that takes care of it automatically? Especially 
> when
> dealing with "large" replies.

When replying to e-mails, I use this one to kill all lines up to 
signature:

(defun rcd-kill-to-signature (arg)
   "Kill all text up to the signature that begins with -- ."
   (interactive "P")
   (save-excursion
     (save-restriction
       (let ((point (point)))
	(narrow-to-region point (point-max))
	(push-mark)
	(goto-char (point-min))
	(if (re-search-forward "^-- $" nil t)
	    (forward-line 1)
	  (goto-char (point-max)))
	(unless (eobp)
	  (if (and arg (numberp arg))
	      (forward-line (- -1 arg))
	    (end-of-line -1)))
	(unless (= point (point))
	  (kill-region point (point))
	  (unless (bolp)
	    (insert "\n")))))))

And I bind it to C-c o

-- 
Jean Louis