[Techtalk] Linux on NTFS? - digest reply

David Sumbler david at aeolia.co.uk
Sat Jan 14 06:43:32 EST 2006


Conor Daly <conor.daly-linuxchix at cod.homelinux.org> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:21:45AM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> mgmonza at sdf.lonestar.org thought:
>> 
>> One of the few things I find frustrating in command line linux is the 
>> inability to concurrently open and cut and paste email.  So I've just 
>> responded directly to Carla's and exported, cut and pasted the rest to 
>> keep from sending six or so new emails on the same topic.
>
> Using mutt, you can tag a group of messages, hit 'reply' (to list
> naturally) and you get the tagged messages quoted with attribution in your
> editor.  Reply and trim as appropriate...

My apologies - my previous reply was largely irrelevant.

In 'gnus' a digest reply, as described by Conor, is done by limiting
the display to the relevant articles and then typing 'S O m'.

David

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