Emacs message message-mark-inserted-region

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Cut Here

From the bygone era preceding Markdown and Stack Overflow, emacs’ message mode developed a marker for code areas within an email. With message-mark-inserted-region, by default in a message with a selection C-c M-m, you get something like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to example.com. Peer’s Certificate has been revoked.

Error code: SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE

    The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
    Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Notice the cute “cut here” lines.

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Tory Anderson
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