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>> This line should be highlighted as a quote.
The effect above is another byproduct. Note where the quote
prefix was placed in the line above. :)
> syntax, then if the line does not start with a space, and there is a >
> somewhere in the first 20 or so characters (I'm not sure of that figure),
Yes, 20 characters is right.
> then TB will treat it as a quote. Unfortunately it is a byproduct, and not
> a bug. I don't think there is anyway that TB could support the above
> mentioned syntax and not exhibit the behaviour you mentioned.
> So the workaround for outgoing e-mail is to always indent your paragraphs
> by a space or two. Unfortunately I don't think there is a viable
> workaround for incoming mail.
> name> This line should not be highlighted as a quote.
Unfortunately there's no practical workaround for received
mail with lines that aren't indented and which contain '>' within
twenty characters of a new line. The quoting gets messed up and one
manually has to correct this.
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