Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!itstd.sri.COM!davy From: davy@itstd.sri.COM Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Reply formatting - how to format body? Message-ID: <9008302300.AA04446@intrepid.itstd.sri.com> Date: 30 Aug 90 23:00:16 GMT References: <88@topgun.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 49 From: Allen McPherson Date: 30 Aug 90 21:28:56 GMT Subject: Reply formatting - how to format body? I've looked at the man pages and have figured out that From:formatfield="%(putstr(friendly{text})) writes:",nocomponent will give me my introductory line. Now I'd like the body formatted as follows: > blah... > blah... > blah... This seems to come up every so often.... so I saved this reply for just such occasions.... --Dave Date: 2 Jul 88 23:05:58 GMT From: "Brandon S. Allbery" Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Subject: Re: replies As quoted from <26220@bbn.COM> by jwalsh@bbn.com (Jamie Walsh): +--------------- | In article <8806231658.aa14871@ICS.UCI.EDU> goog@a.cs.okstate.EDU (GOOG ??) writes: | >how do i get it to appear on the lines with nothing on them...so that there | >is a solid body of >'s down the lefthand side of the page? | | Easy, DELETE the empty lines (and while you're at it, the previous +--------------- Bah, humbug. Try this on for size: body:component="> ",compwidth=0,formatfield="%<(null)> %|%(putstr)%>" ^ ^ To use a different insert character (I use "|") change the characters pointed to by the carets (^). (I don't know if the "compwidth=0" is necessary, but "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" -- it took me 3 years to figure out the incantation above, I'm not going to risk losing it!) -- Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery DELPHI: ALLBERY For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc