On Sat, 12 May 2018, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 23:23:45
From: Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org>
Reply-To: mutt-users@mutt.org
To: mutt-users@mutt.org
Subject: Re: Bottom posting v top posting
On 2018-05-13 09:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
Posting to this list yesterday and a recent incident with my partner,
prompts me to raise the issue of bottom posting. For a long time,
mutters have fought battles and wars to get everybody to bottom
post. It makes a lot of sense, but we have lost every battle and every
war. I now only bottom post to emails on this list. I also never ever
see bottom posting in all the hundreds of emails I get every week,
other than posts to the mutt lists.
I am on some 30+ lists, and I'd estimate bottom posting is the norm on
25. It is true that gmail users are a small minority on all of them.
I also bottom post with some of my best friends who _are_ gmail users,
and they don't object. But I think they use computers for email, not
phones.
To sum up, the vision you have of almost everybody using phones may be
the future, but is not yet the present, and I resist accelerating the
transition.
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Has mutt got something that can be added to a .muttrc file which positions
the cursor in a reply automatically for bottom posting? With bottom
posting what has me concerned is did I hit the downarrow key enough to get
to the correct position for writing and it would be nice not to have to do
that any more.
