How to get ">" symbol when referring to articles?
Jerry Peek
jerryp at tektools.UUCP
Tue Apr 2 16:50:53 AEST 1985
In article <182 at tektools.UUCP> jerryp at tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek) writes:
>
> If you don't have or use rn, but you are using the "vi" editor to edit your
> posting, you can do a filter-through with "sed", the stream editor. Put your
> cursor at the first line of the reply and type:
>
> !Gsed 's/^/> /'
>
Oops; how embarrassing. I got mail reminding me that it's much more efficient
to do it directly in "vi":
:.,$s/^/> /
but the *reason* I posted the reply still stands -- to demonstrate the "vi"
filter-through. It works with any UNIX filter, not just "sed" -- using it gets
to be a habit! Examples include "tr", "expand", "colrm", "cut", etc. etc...
--Jerry Peek
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