Manuel Giraud <[email protected]> writes:
> Martin Kjær Jørgensen <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> To those of you who uses gnus+message-mode in your daily
>> lives; how do you trim quoted text when replying
>> (posting) emails?
>>
>> Do you manually remove excess reply level texts, or do
>> you have some function or enabled variables that takes
>> care of it automatically? Especially when dealing with
>> "large" replies.
>
> Hi,
>
> You already have lots of good replies. I do it manually
> also with the help of 'M-RET'
> (message-newline-and-reformat), 'C-c C-e'
> (message-elide-region) and 'C-c C-z'
> (message-kill-to-signature).
Also, the ‘message’ library provides a command that provides
most of what the original feature request asked for, namely,
‘delete-outside-region’ (bound to C-c C-v, by default, or
see the Message menu). This performs an inverse yank by
deleting the text outside of a marked region of text rather
than inside the region. What it does not do is remove all
of the levels of indentation. The reason for removing them
is to make a reply more readable by including only the text
to which you are replying.
Another ‘message’ command to be aware of is
‘message-fill-yanked-message’ (bound to C-c C-q or see the
Message menu). This helps with another readability problem,
namely, long, wrapping lines. (For an example, I used it on
the yanked text, above.)
If these two features, alone, are used, then the problem of
long, deeply-nested reply texts can be greatly reduced.
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