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(mh-e)Inserting Letter

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Inserting letter to which you're replying
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   It is often useful to insert a snippet of text from a letter that
someone mailed to provide some context for your reply.  The command
`C-c C-y' (`mh-yank-cur-msg') does this by yanking a portion of text
from the message to which you're replying and inserting `> ' before
each line.

   You can control how much text is included when you run this command.
If you run this command right away, without entering the buffer
containing the message to you, this command will yank the entire
message, as is, into your reply. (1) If you enter the buffer containing
the message sent to you and move the cursor to a certain point and
return to your reply and run `C-c C-y', then the text yanked will range
from that point to the end of the message.  Finally, the most common
action you'll perform is to enter the message sent to you, move the
cursor to the beginning of a paragraph or phrase, set the "mark" with
`C-SPC' or `C-@', and move the cursor to the end of the paragraph or
phrase.  The cursor position is called the "point", and the space
between the mark and point is called the "region".  Having done that,
`C-c C-y' will insert the region you selected.

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) If you'd rather have the header cleaned up, use `C-u r' instead
of `r' when replying (see Note: Replying).