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jeremy-compostella / org-msg

OrgMsg is a GNU/Emacs global minor mode mixing up Org mode and Message mode to compose and reply to emails in a Outlook HTML friendly style.
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Question about read-only citation #99

Closed cantao closed 3 years ago

cantao commented 3 years ago

Hi!

Quoting the docs:

For convenience, the original message is quoted below the --citation follows this line (read-only)-- marker. So you can easily refer to the original message. However, the entire quoted text is read-only because OrgMsg does not support modification of the original content.

The #+OPTIONS, #+STARTUP and :PROPERTIES: blocks are fully editable, and as far as I understand, introduced by org-msg. If the buffer is somehow modified by org-msg, why cannot the original message be editable?

Forgive me if it is a dumb question, but I find awkward to duplicate portions of the original message to quote.

Thanks a lot!

jeremy-compostella commented 3 years ago

Because what you see in the citation area is not the HTML editable code. It is the HTML rendered by Emacs HTML engine in text form. If you modify this text form, it won't modify the HTML code and thus not the original message.