From: Wayne Harris via "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" <info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cut here markers for code snippets in mail
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:35:10 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8635q0bk1t.fsf@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v93snjz9.fsf@softland>
Andreas Reuleaux <rx@a-rx.info> writes:
[...]
> I have seen people highlighting code snippets in mail
> with "cut here markers": some ascii art for scissors, "cut here",
> "start", "end", ..., like so:
>
> rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
> ln -f -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d
>
>
> which is kind of nice, and simple (as I don't want to get into
> composing html mails with org-mime or the like).
By the way, notice how we end up with a double blank line. That's how I
saw your message rendered on my screen too --- with Gnus v5.13. This
was not the behavior in some older version. (Perhaps one from 2013.) I
would like to fix that. Is everyone getting the same result?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-19 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-26 18:23 Andreas Reuleaux
2021-08-26 21:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-27 0:22 ` Andreas Reuleaux
2021-08-27 5:23 ` Enrico Schumann
2021-08-27 11:28 ` Andreas Reuleaux
2021-09-19 16:35 ` Wayne Harris via Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader (in English) [this message]
2021-09-20 7:20 ` Alexandre Duret-Lutz
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