>> Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that >> can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs >> quote emails with a preceding "> " character? >> >> I'm about to reply to a very long facebook message and want to quote >> it and make inline replies. But facebook only supports top-posting. >> I'd like to cut-n-paste the text I wish to reply, quote it with "> " >> and then cut-n-paste it back into my facebook reply message. I'd also >> like line breaks to be put in once every 80 characters (email >> standard?). >> >> I use Debian Lenny. >> > > There are probably dozens of ways to do that, but here's what I would do. > > I would write my text in TclText (http://freshmeat.net/projects/tcltext > likely any number of other text editors would do), ctrl-a to select all or > any text I want quoted with ">" and do F9 to comment that text, which adds # > at the beginning of each line. > Then I would do a simple find/replace, find # replace with >
Thanks for this solution; I'll use it as a backup solution in case no one suggests a program that is in Debians stable repository. I want to get automatic security updates wherever possible. > I think medit has a comment feature...not sure which other editors do. > I use tcltext because I wrote it. Works for me. I tried medit per your recommendation. The quote feature there was however intended as quoting programming code, i.e adding /* */ around code. I could not find an email quoting feature there though. -- Regards, Thomas Anderson "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
