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Re: How to increase/decrease quote level in mail/usenet message?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: How to increase/decrease quote level in mail/usenet message? |
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Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:53:57 -0400 |
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In article <jne9e4$2t0$1@reader1.panix.com>,
Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2012-04-27, XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> wrote:
> > Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:
> >
> >> In mail or message mode, how do you increase/decrease the quote level
> >> of a region?
> >
> > M-; In case you want more options, do C-h k M-;
>
> Ah. It never occurred to me (and never would have) to look for
> commands starting with "comment-". I looked for indent, quote, level,
> increase, decrease, and about five other keywords. I have absolutely
> no clue why a command to increase/decrease a quote level would be
> called "comment-dwim".
Seems like they just took advantage of the fact that commenting is done
in most languages simply by adding a prefix to the line, which is
exactly the same as Usenet-style quoting. So rather than write a new
function, they simply co-opted the existing one, since it's not needed
for its original purpose in email/news.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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