Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom> Greetings all, Not sure if this may be a
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom> debian problem but----
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom>
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom> I often save individual incomming emails
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom> in seperate files in my home directory
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom> with the mutt "s" command.
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom>
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom> In any session, the first time I save to
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom> a particular file it goes fine.
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom>
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom> However if I try to save another message
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom> to the same file, I get "Permission
Ian> Erik> Mattias> Chris> Tom> denied."
Ian>
Ian> Erik> Chris> I never wrote any of the above!
Ian>
Ian> Erik> And the quoting does show that. Compare the inner "Chris
Ian> Erik> Bannister" quote with the outer: In the outer, the leftmost
Ian> Erik> '>' ladder links your name with the last quoted sentence. In
Ian> Erik> your inner, the third '>' ladder links your name with nothing
Ian> Erik> at all, i.e. no attribution to you. The whole of the central
Ian> Erik> block of quoted text is solidly attributed to Tom Fowle by an
Ian> Erik> unbroken fourth '>' ladder, is it not?
Ian>
Ian> Now compare this correct, but horribly complex analysis (can a
Ian> human really do that habitually?) with the SuperCite "nonstandard"
Ian> [1] quoting I use. Which is easier to read, honestly? If it is
Ian> a matter of colorizing in the mutt pager, a simple setting of
Ian> quote_regexp in .muttrc fixes that. (This should count as ob-mutt
Ian> content.)
Are we really going to do this?
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David Champion • d...@uchicago.edu • University of Chicago
