Re: incorporating message in repl

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From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Sun, 05 May 1991 18:13

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>>>>> 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.

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