Esteemed monks,

I think it could be handy to have the possibility of defining some templates for messages, either fixed and equal for all, or personalisable.

I've noticed that a little effort in this direction has already been done: in the Message Inbox there's the note:

To help someone by giving Writeup Formatting Tips, link to it by including [id://17558] in your message.
This approach could go a little beyond, like letting the user preselect a template message and fill-in other info, if necessary. A couple of useful templates could be: This would let the reader warn the OP without much energy, and avoid consideration where some operations could be done by the OP themselves, reserving consideration as a later option.

If this proposal is found interesting, I'd also propose to work in "append mode", i.e. append the template to the current message. This would save the useful feature of messaging the OP directly from one of their nodes (which inserts a link to the node directly into the message).

Flavio
perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf

Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Proposal: templates in messaging system by polettix

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