Re: Copying selected content of received email

On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:03:22 +0000, R Wood wrote:

In article <47780405$0$25500$5a62ac22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Felix Karpfen wrote:

I pasted and saved the "to-be-quoted-email selection" in a separate
vim-window and then read the saved text into my (vim) reply-composer.

I save the desired text to a text file on my machine, then include it into the
other message using the facilities provided by my text editor. Not that
elegant, but very simple.

This sounds the same strategy as mine.

And I agree with the comment - simple but not elegant!

Good to know that I am not alone.

Felix



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