Hilary Snaden <[email protected]> writes: > On 2013-11-14 12:13, David Kastrup wrote: >> SoundsFromSound <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> but if that is correct etiquette outside of tech support, and for >>> mailing lists, then I will try my hardest to not top post anymore. >>> Sorry in advance. > > Top-posting was (and may far all I know still be) the default setting > in M$ Outlook, I suspect a lot of people learned the habit from there.
Even Outlook quoted the entire original message with > quote marks, then put your cursor above that so that you could intersperse parts of the original message with your comments. Outlook was not really working well for prolonged conversations, though, since it tended to rewrap lines _including_ previous quote marks (the dreaded "comb quotes"). Anyway, that message buffer setup _is_ useful for inline additions. Heck, it's almost what _Emacs_ gives me when replying, too (the cursor is positioned _after_ the attribution line of the original message instead of completely before the original quoted message, though). If the intent would have been just to append the original message unchanged, the > quote marks would be unnecessary. There were some top-quoting mailers like that around as well, usually leaving a considerable piece of the headers as well. Fortunately, they have mostly died out. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
