AW <alexander.will...@t-online.de> writes: > Dear list, > > would someone help me, being not a programmer, to achieve this: > > I get Emails, copy them into an org-file and would like to write down > comments > on single sentences or paragraphs of the text. > > I'd like to mark some text in the copied text of the Email inside the > org-file > and get "#+BEGIN_QUOTE" and "END_QUOTE" around the marked region. > > I know that I can get the "environment" #+BEGIN / #+END_QUOTE with "<q", but > that leaves it to me to transfer the text into this environment. > > Orgmode 8.0.1, Emacs 24.3
This ,----------------------------------------------------------- | (defun org-wrap-region-in-quote-block () | "Wrap region in quote block" | (interactive) | (save-excursion | (save-restriction | (and | (region-active-p) | (use-region-p) | (narrow-to-region (region-beginning) (region-end))) | (goto-char (point-min)) | (insert "#+BEGIN_QUOTE\n") | (goto-char (point-max)) | (insert "#+END_QUOTE\n")) | (deactivate-mark))) `----------------------------------------------------------- does the job - wrap text (marked as region) into a quote block. Not sure if there is such a function in Org-mode already, it might well be ... -- cheers, Thorsten
