Re: About quoting text, about emacs.

[rex]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:08:45AM -0700, David Ellement wrote:
> On 010725, at 15:05:58, Jens Paulus wrote
> > 1.) Editing an email with vim/mutt, I sometimes wish to insert/quote
> > text from another email that I'm not currently replying to.
> 
> Assuming you know which messages you want to quote before starting
> your reply, you can tag all the messages before starting your reply.
> Each message will appear quoted in your editor separated by a blank
> line.  However, mutt doesn't keep track of the tag order, and for
> mbox folders at least, the reply goes to the first message in the
> folder.

What's wrong with starting another instance of mutt, finding the
message to be inserted, and pasting selected regions in the editor window?

-rex
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