From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to increase/decrease quote level in mail/usenet message? Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 01:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336960814 13786 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2012 02:00:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 02:00:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 04:00:13 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 1STka4-0004LX-Lq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 04:00:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36472 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STka3-0003IO-UL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 May 2012 22:00:11 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1336960695 24891 166.84.1.3 (14 May 2012 01:58:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 01:58:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192408 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:84815 Archived-At: In article , Barry Margolin wrote: >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 *** Perl, I recall, has an optional quoting scheme with things like qqjljljljljlkjlkjkl. I may have the qq-name wrong, but perl has several of these things. Seem pretty useful to me! David