On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Thomas Anderson wrote: > Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that > can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs > quote emails with a preceding "> " character? > > I'm about to reply to a very long facebook message and want to quote > it and make inline replies. But facebook only supports top-posting. > I'd like to cut-n-paste the text I wish to reply, quote it with "> " > and then cut-n-paste it back into my facebook reply message. I'd also > like line breaks to be put in once every 80 characters (email > standard?).
How about passing the text through fmt -w 80|sed 's/^/> //'? (Untested). That should do what you desire, as fmt would format the paragraphs, and sed would substitute every beginning of line with a "> ". HTH. Kumar -- Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
