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Article #3166Re: incorporating message in repl
From: Ron Craig
Date: Wed, 08 May 1991 20:43
Date: Wed, 08 May 1991 20:43
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!mcnc!beguine!craig From: craig@med.unc.edu (Ron Craig) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.misc Subject: Re: incorporating message in repl Message-ID: <3683@beguine.UUCP> Date: 8 May 91 20:43:48 GMT References: <2820ED5C.27526@orion.oac.uci.edu> <1991May5.155751.10841@unlinfo.unl.edu> Sender: usenet@beguine.UUCP Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Distribution: usa Organization: UNC-CH Lines: 19