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Subject: Re: mail mode nit
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Date: 04 Apr 1997 04:39:22 +0200
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Hunter Kelly <retnuh@corona.pixar.com> writes:

> Who wants to port it to message-mode?  :)
> 
> Hunter
> 
> "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> writes:
> 
> > [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> > 
> > Never let a good idea go unhacked.  Here's what I came up with,
> > supporting wrapping in both directions (bind TAB to
> > mail-mode-smart-tab and SHIFT-TAB to mail-mode-smart-tab-backwards).

Before doing this, that person should consider that tab is bound to
bbdb-complete (resp. mail abbrev expand or something like that if bbdb
isn't available) by x-message.el, a more than useful addition to
message.el. 

Not completely unrelated, but nevertheless on a different track: What
I would find much more usefull than tabbing along the headers would be
to have the message seperator finally become 'read-only. I know that
none of us has problems with this as we all know who mail works in
Emacs, but this a very stupid thing for newbies... (I implemented this 
once for gnus, but it was only in for some versions before Lars
finally removed it again for some reason I don't remember.)

Why not seperate the entering of the headers completely from the
message and use some of the nice widgets we have from widget.el? Using
an expandable list widget with string widgets inside them maybe?

   jtl

