On 2002.01.24, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthew, et al --
>
> ...and then David Champion said...
> %
> % set editor="vi '+/^-- $/;,$d'"
>
> Note that this will actually strip your signature and not that of the
> original email.
>
> Given your macro example above, I deduce that your $indent_string="> "
> and so your $editor command should probably look about like
>
> set editor="vi '+/^> -- $/;d}'"
Oops. Mea culpa; pre-frontal cortex on holiday.
I'm not sure that this command will work, though. (It doesn't in
straight vi, because "d}" is vi syntax, but initialization commands need
to be ed or ex commands.)
I'm liking
set editor="vi '+/^[>%] -- $/;,/^[^>%]*/d'"
right now. It handles David's quotation character, too. :)
+ begin vi init command
/^[>%] -- $/ search for a quoted signature indicator
; separate first init command from second
, create a range from the current location up to...
/^[^>%]*/ ... the next occurrence of an unquoted line
d then delete that range
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