Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:50:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: : cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make arch.c buf.c compat.c cond.c dir.c for.c hash.c job.c main.c make.c parse.c str.c suff.c targ.c util.c var.c Message-ID: <20000712155003.W30262@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200007120617.XAA00682@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <20000712115426.N29642@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200007120617.XAA00682@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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[moved to -chat] On Tuesday, 11 July 2000 at 23:17:16 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >>> And if you've got a good way of working out how to wrap quoted text, go >>> ahead and fill the rest of us in on it. 8) >> >> Emacs has a line wrap macro which understands quoted text. Taking >> Fred's paragraph above, it makes this out of it: >> >>>>> I can try to wrap, but I'd have to do so by hand. But wrapping >>>>> text at the sender's end is not the right thing. Your mail client >>>>> is broken, as it should wrap for you. You might try fixing that >>>>> rather than expecting everyone to hard-wrap text for you. Some of >>>>> us like letting our clients wrap the text for us as we change the >>>>> window size. >> >> That's m-q when running in letter mode (I think). > > Yeah, I used to use it. It does disastrous things with nonstandard or > broken nested quoting. Yes, it needs a little help with broken text. > The *only* right thing to do is display the message > *as*the*sender*formatted*it*. For originals, sure. We're not debating that. But what about quotations? It's your decision what you quote, not the sender's. Do you object to the quote of the following paragraph? > No other medium assumes that the *reader* makes the formatting > decisions - markup languages like HTML are designed for express > purpose of allowing the *writer* to distinguish between the > formatting elements that must be under writer control and those that > the reader can adjust. Did you use the D word? I can't see much in the way of design in HTML. It just sort of happened. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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