A Friday Puzzle
M$ mail clients (like OE and Outlook) have this obnoxious
behaviour where if you give them message text that looks
like this:
//my Delphi comment
they insist on changing it into this:
file://my Delphi comment
(and highlighting it like a hyperlink).
If you are using one of these clients now, the two sample lines
above may even look the same to you (both starting with "file:")
But if you examine the "raw text" of the message you will see
that the two lines are in fact NOT the same - the first starts
with "double slash".
This is annoying when sending code snips or commentary about
them. In mail to the less aware I've even had replies come
back asking why "nothing happens when I click the 'link' in
your message".
If i type the text (and remember to do it) i can workaround
this with a blank after the slashes // like this
But still remaining is the problem of incoming code with comments
and no workaround blank that display incorrectly (and cut/paste
incorrectly) etc.
Does anyone have a clean fix for this (other than the obvious
switch to a smarter mail client)? A registry hack or config option
I've overlooked?
i hope this isn't too far off topic. surely i'm not the only
one discussing delphi code in emails.
thanks
-ns
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