Re: [PLUG] Wrapping/Quoting Mail

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

Rich,

What mail client are you using to compose the message?  Or are
you just piping stdin into mail?

In Thunderbird, I use Cmd-Shift-O to "Paste as Quotation".  To
add more levels of quoting, I cut the pasted text with Cmd-X
and re-paste with Cmd-Shift-O.  Each time, it adds a quote level.

In Aquamacs Emacs, to re-wrap a region of quoted text, I select
it and hit Opt-Q to "Wrap and Re-Format (fill)".  It notes that the
lines currently start with "> " and preserves that on the front of
each line as it wraps.

In Aquamacs Emacs, to quote an unquoted region, or to add
another level of quoting to the quoted region, I hit:
- Ctrl-Enter       to enter Rectangular Region mode
- Down-Arrow   to move down, extending the highlighted rectangle
- "> "                 to prefix all highlighted lines with "> "

For more info:
- http://bristle.com/Tips/Internet.htm#thunderbird_shortcut_keys
- http://bristle.com/Tips/Unix.htm#emacs_shortcut_keys

HTH,
--Fred
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On 2/15/14 11:32 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Is there any simple way on the command line (short of writing it
> myself) for reformatting quoted text in email?
>
> That is, I'd like to input a block of text (which might already be
> quoted), and output a properly-wrapped block of text with a selectable
> number of quotation brackets.
>
> If somebody has a tool or recipe handy, let me know...
>
> Rich
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