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From: jgp@moscom.UUCP (Jim Prescott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UCB Mail with reply include
Message-ID: <1053@moscom.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 19:36:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: moscom.1053
Posted: Thu Sep 10 19:36:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 17:48:42 EDT
References: <1392@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <890@bakerst.UUCP>
Reply-To: jgp@moscom.UUCP (Jim Prescott)
Organization: MOSCOM Corp, E. Rochester, NY
Lines: 29
Keywords: mail replies, mailx, inclusion, cute little whatevers
Summary: ~ escapes work in both Mail and mailx.  >'s belong on blank lines too.
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In article <890@bakerst.UUCP> kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent) writes:
>In article <1392@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> xev@hstbme.mit.edu.UUCP (Xev Gittler) writes:
>>Does anybody have, or know of, a version of variant of Berkeley Mail that 
>>allows inclusion of letters into replies, complete with those cute 
>>little '>' or whatever?

Use the reply or mail commands to start a message and enter ~f to read in
the current message or ~f# to read in message number #.  Then using ~v will
allow you to edit the message in your visual editor (environment variable
$VISUAL, probably vi or an emacs).  ~? will list all the ~ commands.  The
above work for both Berkeley Mail and SysV mailx.

>Once in [vi], I enter the following command:
>	:v/^$/s/^/ > /
>That is, look for every nonblank line, and, at the beginning of
>those lines, put " > ".

How about using:
	:%s/^/>/
instead.  Insert a ">" at the beginning of every line.  If you leave blank
lines alone then there is no easy way to tell where the included text ends.
If every included line starts with the same character it is simple to skip
it if you wish.  If your mailer uses more or pg to paginate the command is:
	/^[^>]
which searches for a line that starts with something other than a '>'.  The
tab command in rn does the same thing.
-- 
Jim Prescott	moscom!jgp@cs.rochester.edu
		{rutgers,ames,cmcl2}!rochester!moscom!jgp