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- From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
- Subject: Re: '>' prepended to lines even if Edit is selected when forewarding
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- Keywords: '>' prepending unwanted
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- References: <1937@frackit.UUCP> <1992Dec30.143600.23072@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:20:39 GMT
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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.
-
- It was a bug introduced on accident in PL17. Syd said it's on the
- list of things to do (putting it back how it used to be).
-
- -rob
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- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University
- francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
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