Re: [Evolution] RFE: paste quoted

["Zot O'Connor" <zot zotconsulting com>]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 15:32, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> Today I needed the reverse capability, as well. Someone sent me back
> something quoted with annotation, and I needed to remove the two levels
> of quoting from my reply before sending it back with my changes. So some
> kind of "de-quote" ability, with the ability to do it multiple times to
> remove some degree of quoting (but not necessarily all).
>
> An of course, there's still my standing request for the ability to
> rewrap a (possibly-quoted) paragraph.


Both can be had with a simple pipe cability.

In VI  I would send the paragraph to "fmt -60" to rewrap it.

Sending it to sed to s/> //g would de quote it.

And 
  echo "text" | sed -e s/> //g | fmt -60 | sed -e s/^/> /

would get close to your needs of re-wrapping quoted text (now you can
start to see the issues of re-wraaping doubly and triplely replied to
text).

So if I had 
1) Hi-lite TEXT with mouse.
2) Right click to "Send to pipe command"
3) a box appears with the command line
4) output replaces TEXT
5) send to pipe command has a history, and ability to "save pipes" which
become direct pipes off the mouse click (so I can have cut, copy, fmt,
de-quote, re-quote, etc.)
6) As people submit the common pipes, ximian adds them to the default
package.

 
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