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>
