Subject: Re: bug#25150: [PATCH] Removing ] from message-cite-prefix-regexp

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:03:40 +0200

nitish chandra <[email-masked]> writes:

> Oh. Cool. Then the code should be changed only in
> sendmail.el. Following is the new patch.

[...]

>  (defcustom mail-citation-prefix-regexp
> -  (purecopy "\\([ \t]*\\(\\w\\|[_.]\\)+>+\\|[ \t]*[]>|]\\)+")
> +  (purecopy "\\([ \t]*\\(\\w\\|[_.]\\)+>+\\|[ \t]*[>|]\\)+")

I think it makes sense to remove the "]" character from the list of
standard citation prefixes -- it's not standard, and it's not used very
much, either.

So I've applied your patch to Emacs 27.

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