From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: baard.kopperud@bigfoot.com (Baard Ove Kopperud) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs-lisp function for block-quoting (mail-style)? Date: 11 Feb 2003 11:25:12 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044991803 31487 80.91.224.249 (11 Feb 2003 19:30:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ig6S-0008Av-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:30:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ig6z-0000eh-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:30:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.70.229.196 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1044991513 16256 127.0.0.1 (11 Feb 2003 19:25:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Feb 2003 19:25:13 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110061 comp.emacs:77553 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6565 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6565 baard.kopperud@bigfoot.com (Baard Ove Kopperud) wrote in message news:... > I was wondering if there is an emacs-lisp function > for block-quoting a region and/or paragraph(s) of > text in "mail-style" -- i.e. like this: Thank for all your answers. Though I haven't tried any of them yet, I'm confident that one -- and probably several -- of them will acomplish what I need. I just *knew* I could count on Emacs... or to say it as friend of a friend does: > Emacs is my operatingsystem... > I only use Linux to run the > device-drivers. I guess I must go through the Emacs- documentation, and really learn what it can do. Learning e-lisp would probably also be a good idea. Thanks again, -Koppe