[Orgmode] Re: Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi all,

Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:28:20 +0200, Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Charles Philip Chan <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> >> How does footnote.el find the signature?
>> >
>> > I presume by looking for the line "--" which precedes the signature.
>> 
>> That's not completely true.  The line has to be "-- ", i.e. "--"
>> followed by exactly one space.
>
> indeed. looking at the code in footnode.el, there is a search for the
> message-signature-separator, which defaults to "^-- $" to find where
> to insert footnotes.

If I sum up this whole thread about footnote.el vs org-footnote.el, the latest
one (org-footnote.el) seems better than the original footnote.el in every
aspect but for the placement of the footnotes before the signature.

Does someone take care of updating it?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban