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From: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: How to get ">" symbol when referring to articles?
Message-ID: <186@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 01:50:53 EST
Article-I.D.: tektools.186
Posted: Tue Apr  2 01:50:53 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Apr-85 05:36:48 EST
References: <232@vaxwaller.UUCP> <1026@hound.UUCP> <182@tektools.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

In article <182@tektools.UUCP> jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek) writes:
>
> If you don't have or use rn, but you are using the "vi" editor to edit your
> posting, you can do a filter-through with "sed", the stream editor.  Put your
> cursor at the first line of the reply and type:
> 
> 	!Gsed 's/^/> /'
> 

Oops; how embarrassing.  I got mail reminding me that it's much more efficient
to do it directly in "vi":

	:.,$s/^/> /

but the *reason* I posted the reply still stands -- to demonstrate the "vi"
filter-through.  It works with any UNIX filter, not just "sed" -- using it gets
to be a habit!  Examples include "tr", "expand", "colrm", "cut", etc. etc...

--Jerry Peek
  tektronix!tektools!jerryp