From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41647 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Doc typos and a question Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 20:12:15 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87vgeiouqw.fsf@nwalsh.com> <87g05k91fr.fsf@nwalsh.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177012 7306 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:10:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 9111 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 19:14:57 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 19:14:57 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16MwGn-0005xk-00; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 13:14:17 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 05 Jan 2002 13:14:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA15476 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:13:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9094 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2002 19:14:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9089 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 19:14:00 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 19:14:00 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain ([195.42.214.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g05JDq6X006783; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 20:13:53 +0100 Original-To: Norman Walsh In-Reply-To: <87g05k91fr.fsf@nwalsh.com> (Norman Walsh's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:01:44 -0500") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 44 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41647 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41647 Norman Walsh writes: > / Simon Josefsson was heard to say: > | Norman Walsh writes: > |> Now for my question, what's the intended difference between > |> message-yank-prefix and message-yank-cited-prefix? > | > | One is used to cite cited text, the other to cite non-cited text. > > Does this boil down to: "one is used for blank lines and one is used for > non-blank lines?" Not in general, no. > If not, what does it mean to "cite non-cited text"? message-yank-cited-prefix is used if the text that is to be cited is already cited, e.g.: > foo bar instead of foo bar. This is so that you get this look: >>>> foo bar >>> bar foo >> foo bar > bar foo foo bar instead of > > > > foo bar > > > bar foo > > foo bar > bar foo foo bar which seems to be suggested by RFC 2822 or USEFOR (or maybe both).