From: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Using idiosyncratic quoting styles in mail (was: supercite (sc-citation-leader " ") kill indentation, in a intelligent way)
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 07:21:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <imexwc73.dag@gnui.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1tm5r4u.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:48:33 +0200")
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Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> Great it works like expected thanks a lot!!!
You are welcome.
> [1] the indent feature I regularly use (and so does RMS)
FWIW, until five years ago or so RMS had been using an ancient style of indent-only (no ‘>’), that is, he might be viewed as being in a prolonged transition to a conventional one.
> because it makes the quotes more visible.
Why do not you embed in your mail a CSS style, where quotes are highlighted with a favourite colour for quotes instead, I wonder? ;-)
Both approaches are equally fundamentally broken in their premise, but the latter is at least easy ignorable recipient-side.
> Some mail readers have difficulties with [recognizing idiosyncratic quoting styles]
Indeed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-09 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-07 7:45 supercite (sc-citation-leader " ") kill indentation, in a intelligent way Uwe Brauer
2020-07-07 23:06 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-08 8:48 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-07-09 4:21 ` Dmitry Alexandrov [this message]
2020-07-09 17:53 ` Using idiosyncratic quoting styles in mail Uwe Brauer
2020-07-10 22:30 ` David Rogers
2020-07-11 6:56 ` Uwe Brauer
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