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Typical usage is as follows. You want to reply or followup to a message
in your MUA. You will probably hit r (i.e., "reply") or f
(i.e., "forward") to begin composing the reply. In response, the MUA
will create a reply buffer and initialize the outgoing mail headers
appropriately. The body of the reply will usually be empty at this
point. You now decide that you would like to include part of the
original message in your reply. To do this, you yank the original
message into the reply buffer, typically with a key stroke such as
C-c C-y. This sequence will invoke an MUA-specific function which
fills the body of the reply with the original message and then
attributes this text to its author. This is called citing
and its effect is to prefix every line from the original message with a
special text tag. Most MUAs provide some default style of citing; by
using Supercite you gain a wider flexibility in the look and style of
citations. Supercite's only job is to cite the original message.
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