Kmail Composer 'reply' template: How to insert blank line?

[mara raram]

On Samstag, 19. August 2017 00:15:57 CEST mara raram wrote:
> > > > > > > Having problems constructng a Kmail Composer Reply template.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > How does one specify 'blank line here' in a Reply template?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > %BLANK
> > > > > 
> > > > > That doesn't work for me, although i would have thought it should
> > > > > but
> > > > > it
> > > > > seems to do nothing, i need to have 2 %CURSOR keywords in order to
> > > > > get
> > > > > a
> > > > > blank line e.g.
> > > > > %CURSOR
> > > > > %CURSOR
> > > > 
> > > > Update:
> > > > For %BLANK to insert a blank line use this format
> > > > 
> > > > %BLANK
> > > > %CURSOR
> > > 
> > > Strange. For me, %BLANK completely works, no %CURSOR foo necessary. Just
> > > tested this on kubuntu 16.04 and openSUSE Leap 42.2 (and have been using
> > > it
> > > for years). So if its a bug, it must have been invented rather recently.
> > > 
> > > regards
> > > mara
> > 
> > I have to have %CURSOR otherwise the cursor sits at the top of the email
> > reply sitting on the "On Friday, 18 August 2017 17:55:57 BST Mara Raram
> > wrote:" line,
> > But I can have lots of %BLANK before the %CURSOR and get a blank line for
> > each.
> 
> Hm. I had a %CURSOR entry somewhere in the template, too, so I can't exactly
> be sure if %BLANK works without it.

Just checked, a %BLANK entry works for me even without a %CURSOR anywhere in 
the template. The Cursor is then at the top of the reply, but a blank line is 
inserted.

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