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List:       sylpheed
Subject:    [sylpheed:25141] Re: Label colours don't "stick"
From:       Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y () kcn ! ne ! jp>
Date:       2005-06-14 11:08:50
Message-ID: 20050614200850.3c373a6f.hiro-y () kcn ! ne ! jp
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Hello,

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:51:17 +0200
Godwin Stewart <gstewart@bonivet.net> wrote:

> > I think it's better, because the behavior is unified with normal
> > text insertion and copy & paste.
> 
> Maybe so, but think about the circumstances in which the "Insert
> signature" function is going to be used. It will only work with an
> account for which a signature is defined (either by file or by
> command output). The purpose of inserting a signature is therefore
> to /replace/ an existing signature, either because you just don't
> like the one currently picked or because it simply isn't appropriate
> for the correspondent to whom you're writing. For example, I wouldn't
> keep this signature if writing to a client.
> 
> It therefore seems to me that ^G doesn't obey the normal rules of text
> insertion or C&P because it relates to something that, by definition,
> is right at the end of the message. It seems far more appropriate to
> me to be able to carry on hitting ^G until a signature comes up that
> I prefer and then scroll down just below it, hit Ctrl-Alt-End to
> select everything between that position and the end of the text (i.e.
> all the discarded signatures) and hit "delete". This is far easier
> than going up a few lines then having to locate the top of the first
> discarded signature.
> 
> Please consider either implementing this way, or at least making it
> user-selectable.

How about changing the behavior of 'File/Insert signature' like this: if
no signature is inserted, insert it. But if it is already inserted,
replace it (like on account change).

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>

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