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- From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: '>' prepended to lines even if Edit is selected when forewarding
- Keywords: '>' prepending unwanted
- Message-ID: <1948@frackit.UUCP>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 18:23:30 GMT
- References: <1937@frackit.UUCP> <1992Dec30.143600.23072@das.harvard.edu>
- Organization: Data Factory Services, Harrisburg, Pa.
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- In article <1992Dec30.143600.23072@das.harvard.edu>, adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack) writes:
- >In article <1937@frackit.UUCP> dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
- >
- >>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 >_.
-
- Unfortunately 'bounce' doesn't allow me to add comments before the
- source or whatever. Previous behaviour allowed you to foreward WITHOUT
- edit which would simply resend the message with nothing prepended
- to each line. You could then select e)dit instead of s)end and add
- whatever comments you wanted at the top of the message, still with no >
- or whatever you selected, prepended.
-
- > However, use of the >_ is configurable, in the .elm/elmrc. I think its
- > called prefix or something, and a >_ gets translated into a >(space).
-
- Well, it's not a real problem since I've gotten a reply from Syd letting
- me know that it is indeed a 'bug' and will be fixed in the next patch
- release (hopefully that's soon). Apparently there was some discussion
- about this here after the patches were posted but I missed it completely
- because of the holidays.
-
- Dave
-
-
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