From: Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Quote MML tags in replies
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:52:23 -0500
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:46:31 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > ### OT:
> > For some reason, `mml-quote-region' explicitly re-quotes
> > already quoted MML tags:
> > 
> >   "<#!*/?\\(multipart\\|part\\|external\\|mml\\)"
> > 
> > Why is that ?
> 
> Probably so the transformation is invertible, though as far as I can
> tell there's no mml-unquote-region.

Sending the message (or doing M-x mml-preview) undoes the quoting.  So
if the original message contains an already-quoted tag, constructing the
reply double-quotes it, and sending the reply will produce the original
single-quoted tag again.

-- 
Aaron Ecay