On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:12:34PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:24:01AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > -- > > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP: > > What's a "manpage"? It's the documentation you get when you enter > > "man SOMETHING" such as "man ps" or "man bash" or "man apt-setup". > > > > ...from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think this is a great idea where everyone is going. One thought, > can we surround the tip or for that matter all "comments" in a tag?
> <tip> > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP: > ... > ... > </tip> > > So I can automatically strip it out when I reply? Would save me from > having to delete even more from a message. On another tangent, could > everyone do me a favor and surround any signature with <sig> </sig>. when i quote an email in a reply, i scroll down until i get to the not-so-pertinent part, and in vim i do dG to obliterate everything "from here to end-of-file". > <sig> > ;) > > Mark > </sig> hmm. as ethan pointed out, there is a cnovention to mark an email signature, and that is "^--\040" (beginning-of-line dash dash space) so for your sig, i'd "s/<sig>/-- / ; s:</sig>:: ;" but are you using some cool filter-strip-mongo utility that the rest of us might salute? hmm? (i can tell you're using mutt -- c'mon, fess up.) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #5 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What's a "MANPAGE"? It's the documentation you get when you enter "man <something>" such as "man ps" or "man bash" or "man apt-setup". Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...