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Re: How to increase/decrease quote level in mail/usenet message?


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: How to increase/decrease quote level in mail/usenet message?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:14:16 -0400
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In article <joporn$o9r$2@reader1.panix.com>,
 dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:

> In article <barmar-65BDF3.10535727042012@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Barry Margolin  <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >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
> >*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
> 
> Perl, I recall, has an optional quoting scheme with things
> like qq<char>jljljljljlkjlkjkl<same-char>.
> 
> I may have the qq-name wrong, but perl has several of these things.
> Seem pretty useful to me!

You seem to be talking about a different type of quoting: quoting 
strings in a programming language.  We're talking about quoting messages 
in email/news, i.e. the way I prefixed your message with ">".

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***


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