Re: How to increase/decrease quote level in mail/usenet message?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <jne9e4$2t0$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> On 2012-04-27, XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> wrote:
> > Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> 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
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