* Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> [2010-02-12 20:49]:
> On 12/02/10 12:04, Sven Guckes wrote:
>> and here's how to delete the signature starting
>> at the last sigdashes line to the very end:
>> :$?^-- $?,$d
>
> Actually, to be consistent with the way "modern" GUI
> mailers do it (and, I think, with the relevant RFC), the
> signature ought to start at the *first* sigdashes line:
>
> :1/^-- $/,$d
"in theory, theory and practise are the same, in practise, however..." ;-)
deleting from the first sigashes line might delete too much.
within mails with citations i see TOFU ("text over, fullquote under")
quite often. usually, the mailers cite by giving a minimal version of
the header (from/to+cc/date/subject) and then cite the body without
any indentation; this includes the signatures and its sigdashes line.
an email with two citations would look like this:
new text
[header]
[text]
[signature]
[[header]]
[[text]]
[[signature]]
signature
deleting from the first signature would also
kill the citation of the second to last email.
oh, well, i guess you could call it a feature. :-)
usually, jumping to the last sigdashes and
"dG" suffices; repeat, if necessary. ;-)
two rules to live by:
(1) do not add a signature if it might not help the reader.
(2) delete unnecessary data from citations (usually signatures).
Sven
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