Re: Quotation markup in Gnus

[Tassilo Horn]

Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> writes:

Hi,

> Sometimes I see Lisp code passages displayed with green background
> color,

Mark the code snippet in the message buffer and do `C-c M-m'.

,----
| C-c M-m runs the command message-mark-inserted-region
|   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `message.el'.
| It is bound to C-c M-m, <menu-bar> <Message> <Insert Region Marked>.
| (message-mark-inserted-region BEG END &optional VERBATIM)
| 
| Mark some region in the current article with enclosing tags.
| See `message-mark-insert-begin' and `message-mark-insert-end'.
| If VERBATIM, use slrn style verbatim marks ("#v+" and "#v-").
`----

> sometimes I see quotations enclosed by a frame similar to this:

Like above?  That's boxquote.el.

Bye,
Tassilo