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- From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: '>' prepended to lines even if Edit is selected when forewarding
- Keywords: '>' prepending unwanted
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.143600.23072@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 14:36:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1992Dec30.143600.23072
- References: <1937@frackit.UUCP>
- Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News)
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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- In article <1937@frackit.UUCP> dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
-
- >When forewarding a message and selecting "n" when asked if you want to
- >edit the outgoing message, ELM insists on prepending the 'greater than'
- >sign (>) to each line. This is very undesirable and greping through the
-
- >On occasion I foreward source or shell archives to people and having
- >that pesky > at the beginning of each line is a royal pain. The
- >inevitable question is: bug or feature? And, can it be turned off?
- >Prior to this patch there would be no > under the conditions stated
- >above.
-
- I always thought it was a feature. :) I like i because I can pass
- stuff on, and its clear who wrote what. Have you tried using bounce
- to resend source? Bounce makes it appear the message is from the
- person who mailed it to you, and I don't think it adds >_.
-
- However, use of the >_ is configurable, in the .elm/elmrc. I think its
- called prefix or something, and a >_ gets translated into a >(space).
-
- Adam
-
- Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
-
- What a terrible thing to have lost one's .sig. Or not to have a .sig
- at all. How true that is.
-