From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: quoting a block of text with ">" Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291875927 2256 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 06:25:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:25:27 +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 07:25:23 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 1PQZwQ-0007lK-32 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:25:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQZwP-0007vx-Ab for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:25:21 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z34g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1285814003 20067 127.0.0.1 (30 Sep 2010 02:33:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z34g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181560 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:76788 Archived-At: On Sep 29, 11:59=A0pm, "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. You want to look at column editing mode (part of cua mode) see http://stateofflux.com/2008/06/14/column-editing-with-emacs/