newbie questions: paste with qoute character and thread view?

newbie questions: paste with qoute character and thread view?

[Martin Jørgensen]

Hi,

Newbie questions:

Problem 1:
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I just began using gnus but sometimes I would like to
copy some text and then paste it as a quotation...

Like: If I copy paste this (too long line):
"ASDFASDF KAFLKJAKEJ RKALWEKLJAKKAS ASDFASDFKA FLKJAKEJR ASDFASDF KAFLKJAKEJ RKALWEKLJAKKAS ASDFASDFKA FLKJAKEJR"

Then it should either become something like (with an extra ">" in front):
> "ASDFASDF KAFLKJAKEJ RKALWEKLJAKKAS ASDFASDFKA FLKJAKEJR ASDFASDF KAFLKJAKEJ RKALWEKLJAKKAS ASDFASDFKA FLKJAKEJR"

Or perhaps it should split up the line and insert ">" on each line?

> "ASDFASDF KAFLKJAKEJ RKALWEKLJAKKAS ASDFASDFKA FLKJAKEJR ASDFASDF
> KAFLKJAKEJ RKALWEKLJAKKAS ASDFASDFKA FLKJAKEJR"


Problem 2:
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Sometimes gnus doesn't get all the messages in the thread even though I
type "A T". I have a .gnus file with:

(setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some) ;; complete subthreads

Therefore sometimes I just type "^" on top of the posting that I want to
"follow"... I'm not really sure which of the old messages it shows me,
but I like how it's done in my old news-client:

1) Don't show anything at all, *except*
2) If there are new messages, then show only
3) all of the postings in that particular thread (both new and old)...


I don't think (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some) solves my problem as
sometimes I would have to type ^ to see what an author replied to...


Best regards
Martin Jørgensen

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Re: newbie questions: paste with qoute character and thread view?

[Johan Bockgård]

unoder.spam@spam.jay.net (Martin Jørgensen) writes:

> Then it should either become something like (with an extra ">" in
> front)

M-; (comment-region)

> Or perhaps it should split up the line and insert ">" on each line?

M-q (fill-paragraph)

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Re: newbie questions: paste with qoute character and thread view?

[Martin Jørgensen]

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> unoder.spam@spam.jay.net (Martin Jørgensen) writes:
>
>> Then it should either become something like (with an extra ">" in
>> front)
>
> M-; (comment-region)

That just makes: „ „ „ „ ? Did I disable / have to enable something? I'm
using aquamacs emacs...

>> Or perhaps it should split up the line and insert ">" on each line?
>
> M-q (fill-paragraph)

Ok, I knew about that one thanks... I later found out something pretty
awkward:

To quote manually 

1- Mark the region, or the entire text with 
        M-x mark-whole-buffer   C-x h 
2- Add the "> " using the rectangle command 
        M-x string-rectangle    C-x r t 
3- Set the fill prefix by moving past the prefix and 
        M-x set-fill-prefix     C-x . 
4- Filling paragraphs using 
        M-x fill-paragraph 



Best regards
Martin Jørgensen

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Re: newbie questions: paste with qoute character and thread view?

[Martin Jørgensen]

megafedt@hotmail.com (Martin Jørgensen) writes:

> bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:
>
>> unoder.spam@spam.jay.net (Martin Jørgensen) writes:
>>
>>> Then it should either become something like (with an extra ">" in
>>> front)
>>
>> M-; (comment-region)
>
> That just makes: „ „ „ „ ? Did I disable / have to enable something? I'm
> using aquamacs emacs...

Hmm. Looks like my meta-key was turned off or something...


Best regards
Martin Jørgensen

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