From: Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: quoting a block of text with ">"
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:32:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bp8hbh7ozeq.fsf@usca1uw-JZWWPM1.sanmateo.corp.akamai.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1.1285852603.7851.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> writes:
> Stever Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:59:19 -0700
>>>> is there any function where I can highlight a block of text and
>>>> put a ">" in front of it.
>
> Or, for that matter, easily
>
> * put an arbitrary number of ">" in front, i.e. quote to a level.
> * remove an arbitrary number of ">" in front, i.e. unquote
>
> Fortunately, it seems that, in emacs as in perl, TMTOWTDI:
<snip>
Another way I'm surprised no one has mentioned is just to select the
text using the region and then replace the regexp "^" with ">".
I used to do that kind of thing all the time when I mainly used vim.
Emacs's comment-region has made it much less necessary.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-29 18:59 quoting a block of text with ">" 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 [this message]
[not found] <mailman.8.1285802119.17330.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-30 2:33 ` rustom
2010-09-30 3:06 ` Teemu Likonen
2010-09-30 8:10 ` David Kastrup
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