Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, February 08, 2000, 1:54:34 PM, Nick wrote: > Steve, I went looking for the RFC that pertains to allowable quote > prefixes, and be darned if I can find it. I've run out of ideas of what to > use as a keyword search criteria at: I do believe that there isn't such a beast. It might be

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Alexander V. Kiselev
Hi there! On 8 Feb 00, at 13:54, Nick Andriash wrote about "Re: Use of Quote Character in TB": > Steve, I went looking for the RFC that pertains to allowable quote > prefixes, and be darned if I can find it. I've run out of ideas of what to > use as a keyword search

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Nick Andriash
On Tuesday, February 08, 2000, 12:47:18 PM, Allie Martin wrote: > If you were to set your limit to three characters and I > replied to this message using your first name, the color coding at > your end would be messed up. :) Yes, I'll grant you that. :o) However, I remember seeing an RF

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread John De Hoog
Hi, all, Steve Lamb wrote... >> characters. For example, if you were using only two or three SL> ^^ SL> How often do you send yourself mail while noone else ever does? :) Good point. But -- in reality, 99% of the mail I get uses just > for the q

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Nick Andriash
On Tuesday, February 08, 2000, 1:30:56 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Again, no can do. Most peoples full-name have spaces between >> the first and second names. That means that the quotations above using >> your name as is supported by TB! wouldn't show up as red. :) > Not to mention some

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, February 08, 2000, 12:01:33 PM, Allie wrote: > Again, no can do. Most peoples full-name have spaces between > the first and second names. That means that the quotations above using > your name as is supported by TB! wouldn't show up as red. :) Not to mention some names have s

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:29:35 -0800, Nick Andriash wrote: > I don't seem to be getting too far with my wish! ;o) Oh well, > thankfully, not too many use full-name quote prefixes. I like John's > comparison of what some of the Japanese mailers allow: User > specified limit to the number of character

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Nick Andriash
On Tuesday, February 08, 2000, 12:01:33 PM, Allie Martin wrote: >No can do, once TB! continues to support full-name as a quote prefix. I don't seem to be getting too far with my wish! ;o) Oh well, thankfully, not too many use full-name quote prefixes. I like John's comparison of what some of the

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 09:41:32 -0800, Nick Andriash wrote: Nick Andriash> Ok, let me re-phrase that then... I wish that TB would Nick Andriash> only recognise the quote character and treat it as Nick Andriash> such, _if_ there were no spaces preceding it. Nick Andriash> Additionally, the 20 charact

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
Hi Nick, On 08 February 2000 at 09:41:32 GMT -0800 (which was 17:41 where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points: NA> Good examples Steve, and I agree, hence the withdrawal of my NA> previous request. I can't see a problem though by having preceding NA> spaces act as a null for

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Nick Andriash
On Tuesday, February 08, 2000, 8:43:49 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: >> there some way we can tell TB to do that _only_ when the quote character >> is at the _beginning_ of a line? > Uhm, that would cause you other problems. ;) Ok, let me re-phrase that then... I wish that TB would only recognise

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, February 07, 2000, 11:21:52 AM, Nick wrote: > there some way we can tell TB to do that _only_ when the quote character > is at the _beginning_ of a line? Uhm, that would cause you other problems. ;) NA> there some way we can tell TB to do that _only_ when the quote character NA> is

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, February 07, 2000, 1:51:25 PM, John wrote: > characters. For example, if you were using only two or three ^^ How often do you send yourself mail while noone else ever does? :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-07 Thread Fred Weissman
> Someone posted an indepth explaination about a month ago, unfortunately I > don't have access to my archives at the moment to find out exactly who or > when, but the basic idea is that since TB supports the name>> This line should be highlighted as a quote. Nope, it isn't. > syntax, then if

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-07 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 06:51:25 +0900, John De Hoog wrote: > Some of the better Japanese mailers let you specify the number of > characters. For example, if you were using only two or three > initials as the quoted name, then you could specify four characters > as the limit to regard a > as a

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-07 Thread Allie Martin
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000 13:43:00 -0800, Januk Aggarwal wrote: > Someone posted an indepth explaination about a month ago, unfortunately I > don't have access to my archives at the moment to find out exactly who or > when, but the basic idea is that since TB supports the That was me. :) name

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-07 Thread John De Hoog
Hi, all, Januk Aggarwal wrote... JA> if the line does not start with a space, and there is a > JA> somewhere in the first 20 or so characters (I'm not sure of that figure), JA> then TB will treat it as a quote. Some of the better Japanese mailers let you specify the number of characters. Fo

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-07 Thread Januk Aggarwal
Hi Nick, Nick Andriash wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've noticed that anytime someone uses the quote character ">" in a line > of normal text, TB turns that line into what it thinks is a quote. Is > there some way we can tell TB to do that _only_ when the quote character > is at the _beginning_ of

Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-07 Thread Nick Andriash
Hi Everyone, I've noticed that anytime someone uses the quote character ">" in a line of normal text, TB turns that line into what it thinks is a quote. Is there some way we can tell TB to do that _only_ when the quote character is at the _beginning_ of a line? Nick -- --=N.J. (Nick) Andri