Hi Steve,
on Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 11:34:58 PM, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> And yes, I think it would be nice to be able to change the quote mark
>> from the standard "greater than" to any character or string you like.
SL> This would be bad since it would break many other clients. TB, for
SL> example, uses that character as a signal to color the quote line differently.
SL> Other applications to the same thing. TB also knows that lines that have > in
SL> the first few characters are quotes and will wrap them correctly. Other
SL> applications do this as well. Allowing the user to choose a quote character
SL> willy-nilly breaks that de-facto standard across the board.
I wasn't aware of the de-facto standard, but now that you mention
it...<g> - there is actually nothing wrong with the ">".
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Best regards,
Thomas.
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