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| author | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2021-09-11 08:33:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2021-09-11 21:12:40 +0000 |
| commit | aa500f0243133f2e9e0c912eea3497e52ebc1903 (patch) | |
| tree | f3f996a118afe5cc9014ac5a793f3285ffae4d25 /Documentation/lei-lcat.pod | |
| parent | 57fed2e4b78ed394db38ac6d9b9227722d546d98 (diff) | |
| download | public-inbox-aa500f0243133f2e9e0c912eea3497e52ebc1903.tar.gz | |
When composing replies in "git format-patch" cover letters, I'd been relying on "lei q -f text ...", but that still requires several steps to make it suitable for composing a reply: * s/^/> / to quote the body * drop existing In-Reply-To+References * s/^Message-ID:/In-Reply-To:/; * add an attribute line ... "lei q -f reply" takes care of most of that and users will only have to trim "From " lines, unnecessary results and over-quoted text (and trimming is likely less error-prone than doing all the steps above manually). This should also be a good replacement for "git format-patch --in-reply-to=...", since copying long Message-IDs can be error-prone (and this lets you include quoted text in replies).
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diff --git a/Documentation/lei-lcat.pod b/Documentation/lei-lcat.pod index 656df489..b7887b6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/lei-lcat.pod +++ b/Documentation/lei-lcat.pod @@ -20,9 +20,19 @@ Message-ID or link from surrounding text (e.g., a "Link: $URL" line). =head1 OPTIONS The following options, described in L<lei-q(1)>, are supported. +One deviation from L<lei-q(1)> is the default output format is +C<-f text> when writing to stdout. =over +=item --format=FORMAT + +=item -f FORMAT + +Most commonly C<text> (the default) or C<reply> to +display the message(s) in a format suitable for trimming +and sending as a email reply. + =item --[no-]remote =item --no-local |