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Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text

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From: Bill Riemers
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:15
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>>>>> On 9 Dec 92 10:03:51 GMT, ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES) said:
	Paul> Nntp-Posting-Host: hunter-04

>Regarding Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text; akiy@diva.cs.titech.ac.jp (Akiyama Jun) adds:
 > bgarwood@sngldsh.cv.nrao.edu (Bob Garwood) writes:
>>   How do I change/set the string that preceeds each line of included text
>>   when Following up to an article?  Most people seem to use ">".  The local
>>   installation of gnus simple prepends 3 spaces (making it difficult to
>>   follow who said what and also difficult to substitute a different 
>>   string after typeing "F").
 > I, too, have this same question.  The above quote was ">"ed by having
 > fun with the cursor controls and inserting ">" before each line.  

	Paul> Does gnus as standard have the ability to insert the ">" character?
	Paul> I myself use supercite to give powerful citation control.
	Paul> Before anyone asks, heres the LCD entry:

	Paul> 	 GNU Emacs Lisp Code Directory Apropos -- "supercite"
	Paul> "~/" refers to 128.146.8.52:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/

	Paul> supercite (2.2)	      91-06-29
	Paul>      Barry A. Warsaw, <bwarsaw@cen.com>
	Paul>      ~/packages/sc-2.2.tar.Z
	Paul>      Mail and news citation package.

 > 	Jun Akiyama

	Paul> Paul
	Paul> --

	Paul> (setq flame-proof-text nil)          | Internet: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk
	Paul> (setq auto-gnumagic-sig t)           | JANET   : ssammy@uk.ac.strath.cs
	Paul> Claimer: Strathclyde University made me into this: go ahead and sue.


Great!  Much better than all those spaces. 

I'm sort of new to this game...  How do I actually get emacs to list the
supercite help file when I type "^hi" so I can figure out how to clean-up
the rest of the citation.

                                    Bill
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From: bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers)
Subject: Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text
In-Reply-To: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk's message of 9 Dec 92 10:03:51 GMT
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