From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: quoting a block of text with ">"
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:06:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5gchqv6.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8.1285802119.17330.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
* 2010-09-29 11:59 (-0700), Stever wrote:
> 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.
I'm not sure if you mean this but you can use M-; command to comment a
region. Major modes should define the comment style for the language.
For example, message-mode uses "> " as comment characters. If you want
to change the default then I think this will do:
(set (make-local-variable 'comment-start) "> ")
(set (make-local-variable 'comment-start-skip) ">+[ \t]*")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.8.1285802119.17330.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-30 2:33 ` quoting a block of text with ">" rustom
2010-09-30 3:06 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2010-09-30 8:10 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-29 18:59 Stever
2010-09-30 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-30 8:44 ` Sergei Organov
2010-09-30 9:54 ` Arnaldo Mandel
2010-09-30 13:16 ` Tom Roche
2010-09-30 14:25 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1285852603.7851.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-30 18:32 ` Sean McAfee
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