>>> * colored quoting >> >> Almost certainly not. > > I've been told it existed elsewhere but when I thought of color quoting for > Emailer, I'd never seen it before.
I think it was implemented more or less simultaneously by both Fogcity and InterCon...I'm really fuzzy on the dates, but I remember being annoyed when I saw your implementation. ;-) I can't for the life of me remember InterCon's inspiration for colored text quoting. In all reality, I think it was mostly a side effect of having a new text engine that supported colored text and trying to think of something useful to do with it. It was Quicken's checkbook register that made me decide that we had to support type-ahead addressing. I actually first implemented something similar to that in 1987 or 1988 in a completely unrelated application...so I was always a big fan of type-ahead things. And there was a UNIX application called something like Z-Mail that I stole feature after feature from. elm and emacs and vi and nn and rn and trn (I loved trn) were the tools I knew, so they provided a lot of functional inspiration... Software development, like science, stands on the shoulders of those who came before. mikel -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
