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Re: [Pan-users] how to turn off quoting?
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Duncan |
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Re: [Pan-users] how to turn off quoting? |
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Sun, 4 Sep 2022 12:48:10 -0000 (UTC) |
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seth Hurst posted on Sat, 3 Sep 2022 10:08:38 -0400 as excerpted:
> Is there a way or option to turn off quoting a message when replying or
> following up to a newsgroup message?
GNKSA[1] (which pan follows) strongly encouraged quote with reply-in-
context underneath format, so AFAIK, no.
However, pan *DOES* have a nice feature (also mentioned by GNKSA) of only
quoting the selected text, if any was selected when followup/reply was
triggered. So (accessibility issues aside) it's relatively easy to select
say a single word or character and reply to that, then erase it.
But generally if you're not quoting at least a few words or a sentence of
context in ordered to reply to indicate appropriate context, arguably
you're doing it wrong, and the defaults are there to encourage you to do
it better.
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[1] GNKSA quoting, see point #10:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160417105503/http://www.gnksa.org/gnksa.txt
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