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From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: quoting a block of text with ">"
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:33:22 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2748012-8858-4f0a-b805-d7c79607cf77@z34g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8.1285802119.17330.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Sep 29, 11:59 pm, "Stever" <st...@tripperjones.com> 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.

You want to look at column editing mode (part of cua mode) see

http://stateofflux.com/2008/06/14/column-editing-with-emacs/


       reply	other threads:[~2010-09-30  2:33 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 ` rustom [this message]
2010-09-30  3:06 ` quoting a block of text with ">" Teemu Likonen
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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