On 2/25/12 11:12 AM February 25, 2012, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
Sirtaj Singh Kang [2012-02-26 00:15]:
Usually when I aggressively remove large chunks of text, the quoting
indent disappears and the remained quoted text becomes part of the
message body.
That's odd, because you're replying in plaintext and not HTML. (The
quoting indent that shows up for you, I'm guessing, is a '>' and not a
solid line on the left.)
It's a solid line on the left. Thunderbird's rendering of plain text is
broken.
Given that such is the case, the problem might be that you're using
format-flowed, and when you hit 'reply' the line doesn't get wrapped
with a new '>' on each line. (In other words, there is a single '>'
for each paragraph instead of a '>' on each line.)
I can't find any way to turn format flowing off. Thunderbird's
implementation of it is also inconsistent. Sometimes it does it and
sometimes it doesn't. Nor is this behaviour predictable.
Also, for proper quoting, leave space of at least a single empty line
between the quoted text and your response (which you already seem to
be doing).
One of the charming things that Thunderbird does is make it look like
there's an empty line but then remove that empty line when it sends the
mail. This, along with the inconsistent text-wrapping and other charming
features, makes it look like messages were composed by an idiot when, in
fact, they looked perfectly fine before Thunderbird worked its
inconsistent magic on them.
You dare not remove leading or trailing quoted lines in Thunderbird or
it yanks the next block of text into the previous one. It does this
irrespective of any other blank lines between the blank quoted line and
the next block of text. It simply gobbles them up and leaves you with a
completely undelimited block of text.
This message has not been approved by the Thunderbird team. It looks
fine right now, but I imagine that Thunderbird will screw it up at least
once in translation. WYSINWYG.
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