mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) (09/14/89)
On 13 Sep 89 16:32:12 GMT, mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) said:
mdb> In article <1989Sep12.235542.6683@tubsibr.uucp> neitzel@tubsibr.uucp
mdb> (Martin Neitzel) writes:
Martin> ... Take a look at Mark D. Baushke's article. The one with
Martin> named citations (marked with "rsk>" and "peter>"). He
Martin> developed a new convention and perhaps the tools for it. ...
mdb> The new convention was developed by Barry Warsaw <warsaw@cme.nist.gov>.
On 13 Sep 89 13:08:30 EDT, David C Lawrence <tale@pawl.rpi.edu> said:
tale> The new convention was not developed by Barry; he merely went through
tale> the trouble of making a huge package out of it. One or two netters
tale> had done so manually in some longer postings which involved two or
tale> more people. During one of the "Why does Emacs quote previous text
tale> with three spaces?" rounds Martin Neitzel introduced some elisp that
tale> prompted for a citation string and avoided ">>" type nesting. Ashwin
tale> Ram hacked one or two aditions to that, I incorporated a modified
tale> "fill-paragraph-properly" based on a function by Bruce Israel and
tale> finally Barry came along and made minibuffer-completion based on the
tale> From: field.
I am sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
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