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From: merlyn@intelob.biin.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: reformat paragraphs (was Re: How do I abort processing of .emacs?)
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Date: 13 Jan 89 15:41:05 GMT
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In-reply-to: nate@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess)

In article <3430@mipos3.intel.com>, nate@hobbes (Nate Hess) writes:
| >(P.S.  someday I'm going to read the elisp programming manual and
| >write a function that re-formats quoted paragraphs, keeping the '> '
| >at the beginning of each line, unless someone else has already done
| >this...  hint hint)
| 
| This has already been done.  Go check out Gnews 2.0.  It's an awesome
| newsreader, as well as a place to scarf some useful Elisp from.

Or even simpler, check out "set-fill-prefix", available in your
vanilla GNU Emacs.
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