# Supercite User’s Manual

## Short Table of Contents

- 1 Introduction
- 2 Citations
- 3 Information Keys and the Info Alist
- 4 Reference Headers
- 5 Getting Connected
- 6 Replying and Yanking
- 7 Selecting an Attribution
- 8 Configuring the Citation Engine
- 9 Post-yank Formatting Commands
- 10 Hints to MUA Authors
- 11 Thanks and History
- Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License
- Concept Index
- Command Index
- Key Index
- Variable Index

## Table of Contents

- 1 Introduction
  - 1.1 Usage Overview
  - 1.2 What Supercite Doesn’t Do
  - 1.3 What Supercite Does
- 2 Citations
  - 2.1 Citation Elements
  - 2.2 Recognizing Citations
- 3 Information Keys and the Info Alist
- 4 Reference Headers
  - 4.1 The Built-in Header Rewrite Functions
  - 4.2 Electric References
- 5 Getting Connected
- 6 Replying and Yanking
  - 6.1 Reply Buffer Initialization
  - 6.2 Filling Cited Text
- 7 Selecting an Attribution
  - 7.1 Attribution Preferences
  - 7.2 Anonymous Attributions
  - 7.3 Author Names
- 8 Configuring the Citation Engine
  - 8.1 Using Regi
  - 8.2 Frames You Can Customize
- 9 Post-yank Formatting Commands
  - 9.1 Commands to Manually Cite, Recite, and Uncite
  - 9.2 Insertion Commands
  - 9.3 Variable Toggling Shortcuts
  - 9.4 Mail Field Commands
  - 9.5 Miscellaneous Commands
- 10 Hints to MUA Authors
- 11 Thanks and History
- Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License
- Concept Index
- Command Index
- Key Index
- Variable Index

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# Supercite

This document describes Supercite, an Emacs package for citing and attributing replies to mail and news messages.

Copyright © 1993, 2001–2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being “A GNU Manual”, and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.

> (a) The FSF’s Back-Cover Text is: “You have the freedom to copy and modify this GNU manual.”

The manual is divided into the following chapters.

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