@cindex yanking
@cindex quoting
When you are replying to or following up an article, you normally want
-to quote the person you are answering. Inserting quoted text is done by
-@dfn{yanking}, and each quoted line you yank will have
+to quote the person you are answering. Inserting quoted text is done
+by @dfn{yanking}, and each quoted line you yank (except earlier
+quotes, see @code{message-yank-cited-prefix}) will have
@code{message-yank-prefix} prepended to it. The default is @samp{> }.
+@item message-yank-cited-prefix
+@vindex message-yank-cited-prefix
+@cindex yanking
+@cindex cited
+@cindex quoting
+The @code{message-yank-prefix} prefix is not used on already cited
+lines, instead the contents of this variable is used as yank prefix.
+The default is @samp{>}.
+
@item message-indentation-spaces
@vindex message-indentation-spaces
Number of spaces to indent yanked messages.
@subsection Using PGP/MIME
-PGP/MIME require an external OpenPGP implementation, such as GNU Privacy
-Guard (@code{http://www.gnupg.org/}. It also require a Emacs interface
-to it, such as Mailcrypt (available from
+PGP/MIME requires an external OpenPGP implementation, such as GNU
+Privacy Guard (@code{http://www.gnupg.org/}). It also requires an Emacs
+interface to it, such as Mailcrypt (available from
@code{http://www.nb.net/~lbudney/linux/software/mailcrypt.html}) or
Florian Weimer's @code{gpg.el}.
The variables @code{message-required-mail-headers} and
@code{message-required-news-headers} specify which headers are required.
+Note that some headers will be removed and re-generated before posting,
+because of the variable @code{message-deletable-headers} (see below).
+
@item message-from-style
@vindex message-from-style
Specifies how @code{From} headers should look. There are four valid
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