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Re: Alterative to tc-indent-region?
From: |
Svend Tollak Munkejord |
Subject: |
Re: Alterative to tc-indent-region? |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:05:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
On 2007-07-11, Reiner Steib wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10 2007, David Z Maze wrote:
>
>> Svend Tollak Munkejord <stm-direct_reply@pvv.org> writes:
>>
>>> Is there a function in standard No Gnus that resembles
>>> tc-indent-region from Trivial Cite? (I didn't find any.)
>>> tc-indent-region inserts ">" in front of each line, and it is
>>> practical if you want to fix replies to replies made e.g. using
>>> Outlook.
>
> ,----[ `<f1> k M-;' ]
> | M-; runs the command comment-region
> | which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `newcomment'.
> | It is bound to M-;.
> | (comment-region beg end &optional arg)
> |
> | Comment or uncomment each line in the region.
> | With just C-u prefix arg, uncomment each line in region beg .. end.
> | Numeric prefix arg means use arg comment characters.
> | If arg is negative, delete that many comment characters instead.
> | By default, comments start at the left margin, are terminated on each line,
> | even for syntax in which newline does not end the comment and blank lines
> | do not get comments. This can be changed with `comment-style'.
> |
> | The strings used as comment starts are built from
> | `comment-start' without trailing spaces and `comment-padding'.
> `----
Ah, I didn't know that comment-region was this clever. However, this
produces citations with "> > " in front of them. To have ">> "
instead, I set
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(setq comment-start ">")))
in ~/.gnus
Does that seem to be an OK solution?
Regards,
--
Svend Tollak Munkejord