On 08.04.19 05:04, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 08 April 2019 02:36:49 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Granted, excessive quoting is too common on most lists. A good MUA > > does much to ameliorate the issue, though. In mutt, 'S' skips quoted > > text to the next block of reply in a flash. I also have mutt display > > quoted text and reply in different colours, so not only the "> " > > quotation markers differentiate. > > > And that requires html encoding, also high discouraged on most lists. And > usually skipped by this reader.
Nooo-oooo, that'd be true if it were done on a sent message, but it's only a display option I use on received messages. I'm as averse as you to html, read only the plain text portion of a multipart post, and any html-only post is auto-converted to plain text - then the unquoted text is given another colour in the xterm, by mutt¹. Plain text does not irremediably confine us to a monochrome display. (OK, it may be a bit "fawncy" for some tastes, but makes for quicker discernment of what's the reply, and a second saved can be spent on lunch.) Erik ¹ It's just a regex detecting /^> /, then flipping those lines to the chosen colour. No html at all, even on the receive side. -- 7 reasons why HTML mail is suboptimal: http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
