Re: Quoting the active region when doing `S W' ?

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

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Hi Katsumi,

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>>>>>> Leo wrote:
>> On 2007-12-10 00:50 +0000, Bastien wrote:
>>> Does this have been taken care of?
>
>> This feature is very useful; hope someone get around to do it.
>
> `C-u R' in the article buffer runs wide reply (you can also use
> a numeric prefix like `1' instead of `C-u'):

Thanks for this. 

But for me (No Gnus v0.7) `C-u R' didn't make a wide reply.  I had to
apply this patch:


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diff -u /home/guerry/install/cvs/gnus/lisp/ /home/guerry/elisp/testing/bzg/gnus-msg.el
--- /home/guerry/install/cvs/gnus/lisp/gnus-msg.el	2007-11-26 00:04:09.000000000 +0000
+++ /home/guerry/elisp/testing/bzg/gnus-msg.el	2008-01-16 18:43:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -1160,7 +1160,8 @@
   "Start composing a reply mail to the current message.
 The original article will be yanked."
   (interactive "P")
-  (gnus-summary-reply (gnus-summary-work-articles n) wide))
+  (gnus-summary-reply (gnus-summary-work-articles n) 
+		      (or current-prefix-arg wide)))
 
 (defun gnus-summary-reply-broken-reply-to (&optional yank wide very-wide)
   "Like `gnus-summary-reply' except removing reply-to field.

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> (info "(gnus)Article Keymap")
> ,----
> | `R'
> |      Send a reply to the current article and yank the current article
> |      (`gnus-article-reply-with-original').  If given a prefix, make a
> |      wide reply.  If the region is active, only yank the text in the
> |      region.
> `----

Maybe I didn't digg enough into this, but what is the difference between
`C-u R' and `S W' ?

-- 
Bastien