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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: <182@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 11:03:36 EST
Article-I.D.: tektools.182
Posted: Mon Apr  1 11:03:36 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Apr-85 05:38:11 EST
References: <232@vaxwaller.UUCP> <1026@hound.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

In article <1026@hound.UUCP> pearse@hound.UUCP (S.PEARSE) writes:
> Is there an elegant way to get the ">" symbol before articles when
> referring to other people's postings? For example:
> 
> >This is an article posted by someone else
> >They always seem to have that symbol
> >at the far left.

The obvious way is to use Larry Wall's "rn" program.  It does this
automagically when you use the R command.

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/^/> /'

(the !G won't appear on your screen).

--Jerry Peek, UNIX Training Instructor, Tektronix, Inc.
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