From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to increase/decrease quote level in mail/usenet message? Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:11:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335536115 2233 80.91.229.3 (27 Apr 2012 14:15:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:15:15 +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 16:15:14 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 1SNlx2-0007bS-LF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:15:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNlx1-0000nP-Sr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:15:11 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1335535876 2976 64.122.56.22 (27 Apr 2012 14:11:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:11:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192251 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:84661 Archived-At: On 2012-04-27, XeCycle wrote: > Grant Edwards writes: > >> The other text editors I've used for editing email and nntp messages >> (and most of the GUI mail/news programs) all had commands to >> increase/decrease the quote level for a selected block of text. I use >> emacs for editing source code and almost all other tasks, but I >> haven't been able to switch to using it as my mail/usenet editor >> because I've never been able to find the command in mail-mode or >> message-mode to increase/decrease the quote level for a block of text. > > Just curious: Why would need that? To fix messages that have been broken by people who don't know how to quote. >> My fingers are programmed to do "ctrl-C >" and "ctrl-C <" to >> increase/decrease indentation/quoting, but that doesn't work. Nor does >> there appear to be anything under the mail/message menus. I've tried >> all the command names I can think of but auto-complete never finds >> anything. >> >> I must be missing something obvious. >> >> 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". -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I want a VEGETARIAN at BURRITO to go ... with gmail.com EXTRA MSG!!