I want better control of the footnote positioning within an email message. I could write the code to modify footnote-mode to do what I want, but first I want to see if somebody else has already solved this problem.
When I am top-posting with message-mode and add an entry with footnote-mode the footnotes go to the end of the buffer, but instead I want it to come before the previous message citation which starts out with something like:
Elvis Presley <[email protected]> writes:
If I have a signature automatically added based on footnote-signature-separator then the footnotes get positioned before the signature, however in email I don't use a signature. And furthermore, when I use a closing like:
-Elvis
or
Thanks,
Elvis
then I usually want to footnotes to come after that closing.
What I would like is to have the best optimal position detected automatically whether I am top-posting or in-line posting. I expect the best solution will be to use text-properties-at to detect gnus-cite-* lines and maybe to define text properties for the footnotes section. And/or maybe overlays?
Also note that suggestions like the following will not work:
(setq footnote-signature-separator "^-- $\\|@.*writes:")
Not only is that overly simplistic for the kind of positioning control I would like, but it also simply does not work correctly.