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To:	John Mackin <john@civil.su.oz.au>
cc:	Sam Fans <sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: how to shrink dot 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 Dec 92 22:47:48 EST."
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Date:	Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:34:53 -0500
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>
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[sorry for the delay replying; its been one of those weeks]

John writes:
| You don't need to shrink dot for this to work.  This was the kind of thing
| I thought you would have in mind.  All you have to do is to pick the whole
| lines first.  ...  x/^.*$/ x/^/a/    /

Workarounds, workarounds.  :-)

Suppose I want to do the formatting by pipeing to some program?  Then I
need the selection to be correct beforehand.

| I don't understand this.  When you use double-click to `select a region
| with delimiters' sam _does_ exclude them from the selection: there is no
| way to get it to _include_ them.  Maybe you mean if you are using an x
| command -- can you give me another concrete example?

There I was thinking of something like clipping mailbox entries.  If
you select one with something like /^From /;/^From / you need to trim
the top and bottom to get the actual message excluding the From line.