Re: [PATCH b4 3/3] review: add >8< inline marker to snip quoted reply context

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 09:25:41PM +0000, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > When adding review comments to a message it is very inconvenient to
> > permanently loose the quotable text. Often I will make several passes over
> > a series and the nice b4 behavior of keeping everything in draft
> > encourages coming back and making revisions and further comments.
> > 
> > However, if the quoted text has been erased that isn't possible.
> > 
> > Instead of erasing in the editor provide a full line marker '>8<' for b4
> > to automagically do the trimming similar to how it trims unused quote at
> > the end. Trailing text after user lines and till the marker is removed
> > similar to the trailing text.
> 
> My only objection is that >8< doesn't say "scissors" to me, it says
> "angry bee". How about we equally recognize:

Oh, it was supposed to be > to make it a quote followed by the 8<
which kinda looks like sizzors.

In the end I bound it to an emacs macro and it turns out to be pretty
tricky to type anyhow. So.. Any of these are fine for me, lets just do
one?

>   >--cut--

How about this? It is self describing

Thanks,
Jason