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From: Thompa <Thompa@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Help with quoting
Date: 11 Feb 2005 17:49:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzmybhwih.fsf@hotmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y68u0oj2k41.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>

David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:

> Thompa <Thompa@hotmail.com> writes:

> SuperCite?

So it is spelled... English is not my native language so
you have to forgive me sometimes...

> There's some mention of it in the various manuals; the
> usual use of it seems to be to include people's initials in the
> quoting.

That's exactly what I was looking for.

> > Is it in Gnus/Emacs by default nowadays?
> 
> I think it ships with both Emacsen, in sc.el.

In Emacs 21.3 version of supercite.el I find this line:

;; Last Modified: 1993/09/22 18:58:46

Looks like it went sleepy about the time I started to use other
tools... ;-)

> For a while a couple of years ago it seemed like everyone was using
> it, but it's mostly faded.

Too bad. I kinda liked it... Even wrote some extra stuff for it.

> 
>   --dzm


/Thompa


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-11 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-11  9:30 Thompa
2005-02-11 15:26 ` David Z Maze
2005-02-11 16:49   ` Thompa [this message]
2005-02-11 17:11   ` Thompa
2005-02-22 21:33   ` Nix
2005-02-11 23:44 ` Sarir Khamsi

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