Subject: Re: Formatting for PINE

From: Alain Buys <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:30:35 +0100

Dave H Yoon wrote:
> 
> I am a writer and I sometimes need to sned manuscripts via e-mail. But the
> formatting lenght seems to be fixed. So all my retutn carriages are really
> messy. Does anybody know how to set the ruler on it?

Why not writing within a file (with a text processor or not) and
attaching this file to the mail you send ? 

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From: Gregory Rayner <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 23:56:17 -0500

Can anyone help me with this problem:

When I reply to a long post with only a short reply, I get an error saying
that the new text is less than the quoted text and it won't post.

I have learned that, if I change the > that marks each line of the quoted
text to another character like : , I can post my short answer along with
the long quote.

If the quote is several pages long, however, it can get tedious changing
every > on every line to : . Is there a way in pine which I can change all
>'s on a page to :  ??

Is this doable??

Thanks for any help!!

Greg

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 17:20:31 +0100 (CET)

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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Gregory Rayner wrote:

[...]
  >every > on every line to : . Is there a way in pine which I can change
  >all >'s on a page to : ??

For your own replies, putting this in your .pinerc will do the trick:

# Specifies the string to insert when replying to  message.
reply-indent-string=":"

However, if you want to change all replies in a message, you'd better get
another editor or go for emacs' supercite package right away.

Later,
Robin

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