How to include original message

How to include original message

[John King]

Hi.
Trying to find out how to include the original text message in a reply
that I send out. I am using emacs in a UNIX environment. I assume I
have to enter appropriate command in .emacs file. But haven't been
able to find what command to enter.

I love emacs but still a real newbie on customizing it.

Thanks. 
John King

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Re: How to include original message

[Tim McNamara]

John King <kingjohn@sverige.freeshell.org> writes:

> Hi.  Trying to find out how to include the original text message in
> a reply that I send out. I am using emacs in a UNIX environment. I
> assume I have to enter appropriate command in .emacs file. But
> haven't been able to find what command to enter.

You don't say which mail/news client you are using.  If you're using
Gnus, including quoted text is easy: while reading the article you
want to reply to, type F and the reply will appear with the quoted
text included.  Typing f will result in a new message in reply but
with no quoted text.

If you're using rmail or something else, I don't know how to do it.
I'd recommend that you check out Gnus, though; it's IMHO the best
newsreader and mail client available in the Unix environment and
better than almost all in other environments.  Certainly it is the
most flexible and powerful of all such clients on any platform.

Re: How to include original message

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John King <kingjohn@sverige.freeshell.org>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 2 May 2004 13:18:04 GMT
> 
> Trying to find out how to include the original text message in a reply
> that I send out. I am using emacs in a UNIX environment. I assume I
> have to enter appropriate command in .emacs file. But haven't been
> able to find what command to enter.

No need to do anything in .emacs.  Simply type "C-c C-y" in the *mail*
buffer where you type the reply, and the original message will be
quoted and inserted into the reply.

Re: How to include original message

[John King]

Hey .... thank you so much. The C-c C-y worked like a charm !

Appreciate your help.

I wish you happiness.

John King



Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
:> From: John King <kingjohn@sverige.freeshell.org>
:> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
:> Date: 2 May 2004 13:18:04 GMT
:> 
:> Trying to find out how to include the original text message in a reply
:> that I send out. I am using emacs in a UNIX environment. I assume I
:> have to enter appropriate command in .emacs file. But haven't been
:> able to find what command to enter.

: No need to do anything in .emacs.  Simply type "C-c C-y" in the *mail*
: buffer where you type the reply, and the original message will be
: quoted and inserted into the reply.



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