On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 17:16, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 16:53, Dave Euser wrote: > > Just a few thoughts on this: > > You could assume that any characters marking a quotation will be non > > alphanumeric (makes some things simpler). > > But this brings up other issues: > > 1) how to recognize a single line being quoted (ie the original > > message has only one line). I would assume that you would have to have > > 2+ lines to make a valid assumption that the character(s) you're > > looking at are a quotation marker, and not actually part of the text > > 2) what happens if the original message has some kind of list: > > eg - item 1 > > - item 2 > > - item 3 > > This could easily be interpreted as a quotation marker. How to > > distinguish? > > You can't make the assumption that the quote marker will be > non-alphanumeric. Emacs, for example has this nasty habbit of quoting > with, for example: > > Euser> this is quoting what Dave Euser said. > > That contains alpha-numeric characters.
Interesting......I try to leave emacs to coding. Anything more drives me a little nuts. (no beer and all screwed up key-bindings makes Dave go crazy....don't mind if I do!) > > > > > Definitely not a simple problem....it might come to the point of > > a) not doing anything at all....leave things as-is > > b) make certain assumptions, causing some mis-quoted messages > > This is what we currently do > > > c) create a list of standard quotation markers and work from that list > > There is only 1 standard way, and that is "> " which is also specified > by an internet standards draft. I guess there's no real way to change the current functionality without having a change to the RFC for email communications that includes a header for the quotation marker. I haven't really had a problem with misquoted messages yet - guess I should have just read the code first to figure out what's going on. > > Jeff BTW, kudos to all the ximian hackers for the great job on evo....I've been really impressed with the progress you've made. Amazing piece of software. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
