From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: quoting a block of text with ">" Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:10:16 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <8762xnr6s7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291866915 1622 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 03:55:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:55:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 04:55:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQXb3-0007Os-Be for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:55:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQXb2-0000lc-Pz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:55:08 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NckySKoFsk+KUnaD9w+/6MAZ9CY= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Sep 2010 10:10:17 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 1d41cfe5.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=E9fUZjc20JA9EHlD; 3YcB4Fo<]lROoRA8kF5MOK`al0oRJoGDlR7afNfCIWLY[Zlg; 1K Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181562 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76592 Archived-At: "Stever" writes: > I can't seem to find this function in my version of emacs, but I assume > there is one. is there any function where I can highlight a block of text > and put a ">" in front of it. So something like: > > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps > over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick > brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy > dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. > > - gets converted to - > >> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick >> brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox >> jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over >> the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy >> dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. After setting the region, try C-x r t > RET -- David Kastrup