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Yank the selected message from the mail reader, as a
citation (message-yank-original).
Fill each paragraph cited from another message
(message-fill-yanked-message).
You can use the command C-c C-y
(message-yank-original) to cite a message
that you are replying to. This inserts the text of that message
into the mail buffer. This command works only if the mail buffer
is invoked from a mail reader running in Emacs, such as
Rmail.
By default, Emacs inserts the string
‘>’ in front of each line of the
cited text; this prefix string is specified by the variable
message-yank-prefix. If you call
message-yank-original with a prefix argument, the
citation prefix is not inserted.
After using C-c C-y, you can type C-c
C-q (message-fill-yanked-message) to fill the
paragraphs of the cited message. One use of C-c C-q
fills all such paragraphs, each one individually. To fill a
single paragraph of the quoted message, use M-q. If
filling does not automatically handle the type of citation prefix
you use, try setting the fill prefix explicitly. See Filling.
You can customize mail citation through the hook
mail-citation-hook. For example, you can use the
Supercite package, which provides more flexible citation (see
Introduction
in Supercite).