In article <871w4bmc3o.fsf(a)uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: I don't think this is a bug - you just don't agree with the spec. MIME doesn't have a notion of include-and-quote, so if you want to include a multipart message you have to include it as a MIME part. It's not obvious what the right answer is to how to include-and-quote such a message. Kyle (presumably) took the easiest option, which is to assume the first text part is the message - which usually works. An alternative view, which is what you appear to want here, is that you should include-and-quote the text seen when you view the message. If that's what you want, VM will do it for you - see vm-reply-include-presentation . I find that sometimes I want one, sometimes the other, so I have the following little mod in my .vm: ; mods to R and F so that they include the presentation buffer ; if called with C-u. (require 'vm-reply) (defun vm-reply-include-text (count) "Reply to the sender (only) of the current message and include text from the message. See the documentation for function vm-reply for details. Modified to include presentation buffer if given C-u prefix argument." (interactive "P") (vm-follow-summary-cursor) (vm-select-folder-buffer) (vm-check-for-killed-summary) (vm-error-if-folder-empty) (let ((c 1) (vm-reply-include-presentation vm-reply-include-presentation)) (if (consp count) (setq vm-reply-include-presentation t) (setq c (prefix-numeric-value count))) (vm-do-reply nil t c))) (defun vm-followup-include-text (count) "Reply to all recipients of the current message and include text from the message. See the documentation for the function vm-reply for details. Modified to include presentation buffer if given C-u prefix argument." (interactive "P") (vm-follow-summary-cursor) (vm-select-folder-buffer) (vm-check-for-killed-summary) (vm-error-if-folder-empty) (let ((c 1) (vm-reply-include-presentation vm-reply-include-presentation)) (if (consp count) (setq vm-reply-include-presentation t) (setq c (prefix-numeric-value count))) (vm-do-reply t t c))) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta