Re: quoting a block of text with ">"

[Sean McAfee]

Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> writes:

> Stever Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:59:19 -0700
>>>> is there any function where I can highlight a block of text and
>>>> put a ">" in front of it.
>
> Or, for that matter, easily
>
> * put an arbitrary number of ">" in front, i.e. quote to a level. 
> * remove an arbitrary number of ">" in front, i.e. unquote
>
> Fortunately, it seems that, in emacs as in perl, TMTOWTDI:
<snip>

Another way I'm surprised no one has mentioned is just to select the
text using the region and then replace the regexp "^" with ">".

I used to do that kind of thing all the time when I mainly used vim.
Emacs's comment-region has made it much less necessary.