bstankie@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bozo) (05/03/91)
What is the best way of incorporating a message in a reply? I have seen a number of messages that put '>' at the beginning of each line how is this done? Thanks in advance Brian Stankiewicz bstankie@teri.bio.uci.edu
bill@thd.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden) (05/04/91)
In article <2820ED5C.27526@orion.oac.uci.edu> bstankie@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bozo) writes: >What is the best way of incorporating a message in a reply? I have >seen a number of messages that put '>' at the beginning of each line >how is this done? It took me an entire morning to figure out how to do this. If you're using mh mail, create a file called .replfilter containing the following: ---cut here--- : body:component=">",compwidth=0 ---cut here--- When you run repl, it will quote the text automatically and put in the '>'s. Using your editor, you can pare it down as you please, or delete it entirely. If you want to reply to a usenet article and are running rn, type R to quote the text for an email reply, and F to quote the text for a followup posting. r and f work the same, but don't qoute any text. -- Bill McFadden Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 500 MS 58-639 Beaverton, OR 97077 bill@tv.tv.tek.com, {hplabs,uw-beaver,decvax}!tektronix!videovax!bill Phone: (503) 627-6920 "SCUD: Shoots Crooked, Usually Destroyed"
bill@thd.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden) (05/04/91)
Oops. I forgot to mention in my previous posting that you need to use
the command line switch -filter ~/.replfilter to make repl recognize
the .replfilter file. In my case, I use the following alias:
alias repl -nocc all -cc cc -filter ~/.replfilter
--
Bill McFadden Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 500 MS 58-639 Beaverton, OR 97077
bill@tv.tv.tek.com, {hplabs,uw-beaver,decvax}!tektronix!videovax!bill
Phone: (503) 627-6920 "SCUD: Shoots Crooked, Usually Destroyed"gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu (root@research.bdi.com (Systems Research Supervisor)) (05/04/91)
In article <1991May3.210646.24934@tvnews.tv.tek.com> bill@thd.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden) writes: => =>alias repl -nocc all -cc cc -filter ~/.replfilter Or put the line: repl: -nocc all -cc cc -filter ~/.replfilter in your ~/.mh_profile. Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu _o_ ---------------------- _o_ [|o o|] Two CPU's are better than one; N CPU's would be real nice. [|o o|] |_o_| Disclaimer: I AM Brain Dead Innovations, Inc. |_o_|
sanjiv@hoss.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia) (05/05/91)
In <2820ED5C.27526@orion.oac.uci.edu> bstankie@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bozo) writes: >What is the best way of incorporating a message in a reply? I have >seen a number of messages that put '>' at the beginning of each line >how is this done? In /bin/mail, use ~m to include the message being replied to. It indents the original message by a tab. I used to do global substitution on tab till I switched to elm. >Thanks in advance >Brian Stankiewicz >bstankie@teri.bio.uci.edu -- Sanjiv K. Bhatia Department of Computer Science sanjiv@fergvax.unl.edu Ferguson Hall 115 voice: (402)-472-3485 University of Nebraska - Lincoln fax: (402)-472-7767 Lincoln, NE 68588-0115
jeff@onion.rain.com (Jeff Beadles) (05/06/91)
[ Note: Followups to comp.mail.mh, the group for questions about MH ] bill@thd.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden) writes: >bstankie@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bozo) writes: >>What is the best way of incorporating a message in a reply? I have >>seen a number of messages that put '>' at the beginning of each line >>how is this done? >---cut here--- >: >body:component=">",compwidth=0 >---cut here--- >When you run repl, it will quote the text automatically and put in the >'>'s. Using your editor, you can pare it down as you please, or delete >it entirely. This isn't quite complete. Before you do this, you must tell repl to use this filter. In your ~/.mh_profile, add the following; repl: -filter ~/.Mail/replfilter Note, if you already have a repl: line, just add the -filter ... to the end of it. -Jeff -- Jeff Beadles jeff@onion.rain.com
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (05/06/91)
>>>>> On 5 May 91 15:57:51 GMT, sanjiv@hoss.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia) said: Sanjiv> In <2820ED5C.27526@orion.oac.uci.edu> bstankie@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bozo) writes: >What is the best way of incorporating a message in a reply? I have >seen a number of messages that put '>' at the beginning of each line >how is this done? Sanjiv> In /bin/mail, use ~m to include the message being replied to. Sanjiv> It indents the original message by a tab. I used to do global Sanjiv> substitution on tab till I switched to elm. With GNU Emacs' mail & add-on SuperCite package, as you see, I automatically use your name instead of ">"'s ... (it doesn't disturb existing ">"'s also) See the gnu.emacs.* groups.
craig@med.unc.edu (Ron Craig) (05/09/91)
In article <1991May5.155751.10841@unlinfo.unl.edu> sanjiv@hoss.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia) writes: >In <2820ED5C.27526@orion.oac.uci.edu> bstankie@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bozo) writes: > >>What is the best way of incorporating a message in a reply? I have >>seen a number of messages that put '>' at the beginning of each line >>how is this done? > >In /bin/mail, use ~m to include the message being replied to. It indents the >original message by a tab. I used to do global substitution on tab till I >switched to elm. Add the following line to your .mailrc file to get the '>' instead of tab: set indentprefix=> That should do it! -- Ron Craig inet- craig@med.unc.edu CB# 8180 - UNC Chapel Hill bitnet- URONCR@UNC.BITNET AT&T- (919) 966-3681 Chapel Hill NC 27599-8180 My opinions are valued by UNC, not shared by them.