From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to increase/decrease quote level in mail/usenet message? Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:53:57 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335538522 23186 80.91.229.3 (27 Apr 2012 14:55:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:55:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 27 16:55:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SNmZo-0007sZ-PG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:55:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53140 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNmZo-0007Mt-66 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:55:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="ePtxJaRXJPFeIWBMlKfZaA"; logging-data="20091"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18dGiRU39rGSYXmTX5IBWnS" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oP2VCkID+QBHd3Ct6+ieXkgYG+A= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192252 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84662 Archived-At: In article , Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-04-27, XeCycle wrote: > > Grant Edwards writes: > > > >> In mail or message mode, how do you increase/decrease the quote level > >> of a region? > > > > M-; In case you want more options, do C-h k M-; > > Ah. It never occurred to me (and never would have) to look for > commands starting with "comment-". I looked for indent, quote, level, > increase, decrease, and about five other keywords. I have absolutely > no clue why a command to increase/decrease a quote level would be > called "comment-dwim". Seems like they just took advantage of the fact that commenting is done in most languages simply by adding a prefix to the line, which is exactly the same as Usenet-style quoting. So rather than write a new function, they simply co-opted the existing one, since it's not needed for its original purpose in email/news. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***