On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > On 09Jan2016 09:22, Xu Wang <xuwang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Chris Bannister >> <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 11:34:17PM -0500, Xu Wang wrote: >>>> >>>> Sometimes I observe that Ian quotes emails such as: >>>> Michael> its own MTA. The one at Apptix is the obvious, but Apptix's >>>> Michael> SMTP service is crypted and authenticated, and I haven't found >>>> Michael> a way to make mutt log in as me. >>>> >>>> Is this a setting in mutt or does he do that manually? What is the >>>> name of that type of quoting? >>> >>> > [...] >> >> Would it be less annoying if the name were only given at the top of >> each block? e.g.... >> >> John > This is a line that spans >> > several paragraphs but we only >> > state name on first line >> Xu > I see. that is good to know. I think >> > people will still find it annoying though. > > > I have thought of a better approach: don't change the quoting, change mutt's > display_filter. > > Xu's wish is to have more nicely annotated quoted text. Write a parser which > reads _standard_ quotes text and relabels is as above for _display_ > purposes. It looks like a lot of the hard work may already be done in these > supercite programs already mentioned. Then Xu can, on a personal basis, "set > display_filter=..." to get this. > > Caveat: I think mutt runs the display_filter to get the text which is quoted > when you reply, so you need to unset this before replying to a message in > order to preserve the standard quote format. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
Ah yes you are right! I am not interested in making others suffer. Is simply that I get lost when there are several levels of quoting and when reading it would be nice to read in a different way. Kind regards, Xu
