On 12/02/10 22:43, Sven Guckes wrote:
* 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
OTOH, on any post on this list, removing only the last signature deletes
too little: check this post, or yours to which I'm replying, and you'll
see that the list adds a second signature below yours or mine. "Proper"
signature removal should remove both (the way SeaMonkey did above when I
clicked the reply button).
Best regards,
Tony.
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