Variable: mail-citation-prefix-regexp

mail-citation-prefix-regexp is a customizable variable defined in sendmail.el.gz.

Value

"\\([   ]*\\(\\w\\|[_.]\\)+>+\\|[    ]*[>|]\\)+"

Documentation

Regular expression to match a citation prefix plus whitespace.

It should match whatever sort of citation prefixes you want to handle, with whitespace before and after; it should also match just whitespace. The default value matches citations like foo-bar> plus whitespace.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 24.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/sendmail.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defcustom mail-citation-prefix-regexp
  (purecopy "\\([ \t]*\\(\\w\\|[_.]\\)+>+\\|[ \t]*[>|]\\)+")
  "Regular expression to match a citation prefix plus whitespace.
It should match whatever sort of citation prefixes you want to handle,
with whitespace before and after; it should also match just whitespace.
The default value matches citations like `foo-bar>' plus whitespace."
  :type 'regexp
  :version "24.1")