[Alpine-info] Reply Top Posting

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:


> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, M.RossARR wrote:

>

>> Pine & Alpine offers the signature to be at the top or bottom via:

>> Setup-Config

>> [ -Reply Preferences- ]

>>     [X]  signature-at-bottom

>> 

>> I will assume most users set it for bottom! Makes sense!

>> 

>> Yet when reply is triggered, the cursor is always found at the top

>> waiting to type, so off goes the writer top posting! It's natural!

>> 

>

> If you include in your signature the special token _CURSORPOS_, you can 

> choose where the cursor is placed when replying.

>

> Using what seems to be your signature as an example, you would change it to 

> everything between the lines of hyphens here:

>

> ---------------------------------------

> _CURSORPOS_

>

> --

> The Best to You & Yours,

> M. Ross All Rights Reserved

> mrossarr at nixsyspaus.org

> ---------------------------------------

>

> Combine it with the signature-at-bottom option, and it should behave as 

> you want.



Nobody replied to the above, so I'm resending it in the hope that it will 
be noticed.  It is amazing what features of Alpine have been hidden from 
me for many years -- maybe I just need to look harder.  The _CURSORPOS_ 
token is one of them.

More about signatures:

http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/alpine-info/misc/signature.html

Mike