On 13 January 2014 19:47, Brewster Gillett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 11:25 -0500, George Reeke wrote: > > Re: Evolution 2.32.3 on RedHat RHEL 6.5 (64-bit). > > Everything works fine except I notice when I open a reply window, > > the cursor sits at the upper left of the window as it should > > (for top-reply used with everything but these lists), <snip> > > bg: > > The reason that almost every email program places the cursor at the > beginning of the backquote is probably one of the most widely > misunderstood phenomena on the Net. It is placed there because the > idea is to allow the replier to scroll down through the backquote, > snipping out everything but the couple-three lines relevant to their > reply, then launching their reply *below* that. But generations of newer > users of email have assumed, wrongly, that it is encouraging them > to simply begin their reply, ignoring the backquote, and that is how we > ended up with the ugly travesty that is top-posting. >
Agreed (though I'd call it quoted material; backquote usually refers to a punctuation character :-) poc
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