On Mi, 26 Nov 2025, Nicola Pinna via Mutt-users wrote:
> Dear mutt users, > As many MUAs do not properly increase quote levels while replying to > emails I would like, in some cases, to select part of the text and > increase the quote level in Vim. > Something similar I do to format a text to the right number of colums by > selecting the text (Visual mode in Vim) and simply use the "gq" > argument. > Would it be possible to do something similar and add at the beginning of > each selected line a "> ". > I know that this is not strictly mutt related, but I am sure that many > mutt users should be also annoied by MUAs not increasing the quote > level. Mutt can so nicely color each quote level differently to improve > the readability of emails. By default, Vim comes with the mail.vim filetype plugin, which let's you quickly quote a selected region using \q Make sure you have :filetype plugin on set in your .vimrc file. If this is enabled, you can quote (e.g. add a quote level) a visually selected region using the \q vmap. See :e $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/mail.vim for more details. regards, Christian -- Humor in the Court: Q: ...and what did he do then? A: He came home, and next morning he was dead. Q: So when he woke up the next morning he was dead?
