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[Orgmode] Re: desirability of boxquote-style snippets for helping new us
From: |
Austin Frank |
Subject: |
[Orgmode] Re: desirability of boxquote-style snippets for helping new users |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:32:53 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (darwin) |
On Thu, Jan 15 2009, Samuel Wales wrote:
> I have noticed more people using boxquote and similar ways of setting
> off code. This makes it pretty and makes it stand out, both of which
> are good things.
>
> [snip]
>
> What do you think?
For anyone using gnus, I think a good alternative is to use
message-mark-inserted region. Select a region and hit C-c M-m to get
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
a region set apart in this manner.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
If you use a prefix on the command, C-u C-c M-m, you get slrn style
verbatim marks,
#v+
resulting in a region set a part in this manner.
#v-
Gnus gives nice highlighting in buffers containing sections like these.
Even for mail readers that don't recognize them, I think at least the
first is a good way of setting examples apart from the rest of the text.
FWIW, I do like boxquote for quoting excerpts from Info pages. On an
info page, put some text into the kill ring (I use kill-ring-save, which
is M-w in my setup). Then call M-x boxquote-info.
,----[ (info "(message)Insertion") ]
| `C-c M-m'
| Mark some region in the current article with enclosing tags. See
| `message-mark-insert-begin' and `message-mark-insert-end'. When
| called with a prefix argument, use slrn style verbatim marks
| (`#v+' and `#v-').
`----
Just my $0.02.
/au
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