barney wrote:
>> The problem is that we presently can't preserve this information in the
>> compose window without using the vertical bar.
>
> The compose window?
The viewer, too.
The compose window is the real problem, because here, it *has* to wrap
automatically, since the user might edit quotes. Otherwise, the whole
point of flowed is lost.
> I don't quite understand how this relates to the view window.
Composer *is* a viewer, just that you can mess around with the content :).
> Sorry if I'm dense about all this. While I can accept the fact that
> there may be some technical difficulties, I don't have to like it, do I? :)
>
> I find it distracting.
If you want to alter the color/thickness, you can do that with CSS.
> Was that maybe the whole point? And I don't like
> the fact that it's used inconsistently.
We do use vertical bars now consistently (by default).
> possibly misinterpretting
> something in the message body, like a series of ">" in the beginning of
> a line that was not intended as quoted text (turning off graphical
> display corrected this).
Are you referring to those broken attribution lines generated by
supercite used by VM/Emacs? E.g. ">>>>> BB=Ben Bucksch wrote:"?
