That would do it. Thanks, Ronny. I think I prefer the vim mapping.
Overall I do prefer the quoting of the entire reply.
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000, Ronny Haryanto wrote:
> On 26-Jul-2000, Ken W wrote:
> > I guess essentially, blank line would not be quoted. It would be
> > really nice for skipping paragraph to paragraph.
>
> To do it manually, put this in ~/.vimrc:
>
> map _> :%s/^> $<CR>
>
> and use _> everytime you need to.
>
>
> To do it automatically, in ~/.muttrc:
>
> set editor = 'vi -u ~/.vimrc-mutt'
>
> and then add this to your ~/.vimrc-mutt:
>
> au BufRead * normal :%s/^> $<CR><C-L>gg
>
> HTH,
>
> Ronny
>
> PS. the above assumes your $indent_string = "> ".