Wm >Ah i see the sea of >'s now, makes me glad i do the copying and not let their >sw do it for me:) All i have to do in my editor is reformat back to the >original paragraph form for posts i am quoting (once), not take out all the >tedious >'s on every line first.
greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: William Tanksley, Jr <[email protected]> reply-to: [email protected] to: [email protected] date: 15 May 2013 13:17 subject: Re: [Jchat] posting for the ages greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: >>The only one affecting gMail is "fixed width" but i think that only affects >>the font, and the other behaviour is, as i remember, the same before and >>after adding it. >I love fixed width. I wish GMail would be consistent about supporting it >(natively). >>The advantage in long lines, and the benefit that it gives me, is that it >>prevents wrapping through to the next cycle. This is an inductive cycle. >I didn't know what you meant at all, until you mentioned "a vertical line(s) >enclosing all of the quoted material" below. Click! All became clear. You're >NOT using the plaintext interface; you're using rich text. When you move into >your editor, you're losing crucial detail. >Once I figured that out, the entire problem made more sense -- that's the kind >of thing I have to fight in (my older) Outlook and some forums. If you switch >to plaintext in GMail your problem will go away -- and in fact you probably >were in plaintext, then someone somehow switched you to richtext and you >didn't notice because you're using another editor.> >> Before i had to laboriously reform every note, in every post, each time. Now >> i just do it once. It remains unbroken. It saves me a good hour every day:) >Yes, that makes sense -- but try switching to true plaintext, and don't bother >reforming paragraphs. That's what the ">" behavior is meant for -- it allows >the editor and/or MUA to perform rewraps that won't scramble quotations. >> But then i am fastidious about keeping a history of my email correspondence: >> one which stretches back to 1970, the first email group i was a member of >> was a Sociologist group exploring the (then) new medium of email at Project >> MAC. I have to admit I respect that. Pretty cool. -Wm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
