Re: Quotation markup in Gnus

[Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> writes:

> Hi to all
>
> I have noticed that some of you use a kind of markup to highlight
> special passages in emails, for example for Lisp code examples or
> for quotes from a manual.
>
> Sometimes I see Lisp code passages displayed with green background
> color, sometimes I see quotations enclosed by a frame similar to this:
>
>  _
> /
> | Text
> | Text
> | Text
> \_
>
> How to do that? Is it a special package or a standard function of Gnus
> or Message mode I have not yet discovered? I have searched the net and
> the Gnus manual, but I seem to have missed the relevant keywords.

There is for example boxquote.
Select a region, and type M-x boxquote-region RET

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| How to do that? Is it a special package or a standard function of Gnus
| or Message mode I have not yet discovered? I have searched the net and
| the Gnus manual, but I seem to have missed the relevant keywords.
`----

M-x apropos RET boxquote RET

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