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From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mail 'Q' reply
Date: Tue,  8 Oct 2002 23:13:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8af8d570ee4113c634fe3e563dd421d4@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)

 > Here in Japan, most mails are written in ISO-2022-JP though
 > `Q' doesn't do code translating (to UTF).  I felt awkward
 > to write C-codes to solve this.  I just favour rc scripting.

 > Oh, and I think 3rd acme/mail didn't have `Q' reply, did it?

Q is new, but I have until now been happily using my
/bin/mindent:

   #!/bin/rc
   sed 's/^./ > &/'

by executing |mindent after selecting.  Q indeed
shortcuts the process.  Doesn't help with
translation, of course.

	Dennis


             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-09  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-09  3:13 Dennis Ritchie [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-09 12:08 rog
2002-10-09  3:25 okamoto
2002-10-09  2:35 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2002-10-07  1:26 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2002-10-06 22:05 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-10-06 20:42 rob pike, esq.
2002-10-06 18:11 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-10-05 12:18 rob pike, esq.
2002-10-05  3:29 Skip Tavakkolian

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