[Fwd: Re: How to costumize line spacing in Xemacs?]

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Vladimir G. Ivanovic writes:
 > Sorry, I forgot to add the list as an addressee.
 > 
 > Does anyone else get irritated that replying to an xemacs-beta
 > posting requires extra steps to include the list and remove the
 > poster?

Sure, but that's almost always because they use broken MUAs.  A
reasonable MUA will have a list-reply function, and with a little
generalization (ie, instead of failing if there is no List-Post
header, it looks for List-Post, Reply-To, and From in that order, and
uses the first one found), `list-reply' is pretty much suitable as
your default reply action.  (The day that XEmacs lists start Reply-To
munging is the last day I will be willing to act as postmaster! ;-)

As Sean mentions, it's also reasonable to use a wide reply.

Vladimir G. Ivanovic writes:

 > Is it reasonable to use the specifiers 'minimum-line-descent' and
 > 'minimum-line-ascent'?

Hm, I didn't know about those.  Very cool!  There's an unused
"interline space" struct member somewhere, which is what I was
thinking about.

Yes, that would have the same effect as the "strut" glyph, I think,
but be less kludgy.

 > In combination, they seem to do the job, but I don't know if there are
 >  any ill side effects (except one: the (block) cursor is in the wrong
 > place, above the text, instead of on top of the text.)

I presume that's an effect of minimum-line-ascent?  Maybe there's a
way to control the height of the block cursor.

I'm entering a bug report in the tracker.  In the future, please feel
free to do this yourself!