>If one is concerned about some nanny-algorithm breaking lines, one can always >make the first character of a line be ">".
>It is a convention, followed by many MUA's, but not always. Eg some of you may >receive this text with auto broken lines ... and if they are forwarded in that >broken state, they will so propagate. >Some nanny isms, like the "auto-correction" to capital case in some text >editors are configurable. But by and large we are, without a lot of effort, >victims to other programmers proclivities. ~greg http://krsnadas.org -- from: 'robert therriault' via Chat <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: Feb 28, 2020, 11:01 AM subject: Re: [Jchat] attachments to forum messages Apologies, >As Raul pointed out the attachment does show up at the very end of a long >thread. So I guess the lesson is that if you are going to use an attachment >only reply to a part of the thread. Cheers, bob -- rom: 'robert therriault' via Chat <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: Feb 28, 2020, 10:45 AM subject: Re: [Jchat] attachments to forum messages Hi Brian, >The only thing that I would add is that the attachment does not show up in the >html version of the forums. >http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2020-February/055196.html >So the attachments may be a good way to send test scripts back and forth, but >for permanent archived records a link in the email to github or a page on the >wiki may be the way to go. Cheers, bob -- from: Brian Schott <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: Feb 28, 2020, 10:40 AM subject: [Jchat] attachments to forum messages Raul, >You have shown how to attach an .ijs file from gmail by first changing it to a >.txt file before attaching. >Furthermore you have shown that the text does not appear as an attachment in >the forum, but as text at the bottom of the post. >I guess I see this feature as mostly a benefit for folks whose forum >contributions do not format well with indentation problems and extra line >problems, etc. They can put their whole message into a textfile and attach it, >but have to be careful to signal at the top of their post that their real post >is way at the bottom. Do you agree? Congratulations. -- (B=) <-----my sig Brian Schott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
