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On 05 Oct 2000, Emerick Rogul wrote:

>   (let ((quote-prefix-regexp
> 	 (concat
> 	  "[ \t]*"                      ; possible initial space
> 	  "\\(\\(" (regexp-quote message-yank-prefix) "\\|" ; user's prefix
> 	  "\\w+>\\|"                    ; supercite-style prefix
> 	  "[" gdr-message-quote-chars "]" ; standard prefix
> 	  "\\)[ \t]*\\)+")))            ; possible space after each prefix

I think this is a good chance to unify the citation prefix handling.
Various places in Gnus use various definitions for it, all similar but
subtly different.

Do you think it would be possible to have a single regexp in a single
file that defines this, and to have both Message and Gnus use this
variable? 

kai
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