Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net writes:
.On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 9:35 AM, mike.valk@gmail.com mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
2017-06-17 11:17 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net:
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 8:40 PM, mike.valk@gmail.com mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
Bleh. It looked so pretty in my mind. ;-(
i knoow... btw can you possibly investigate why, when you hit "reply", the ">"s are not added?
I was using gmail in HTML mode, apparently. I've found a switch. Hopefully this works better.
it does. yay!
N.B. Was this a problem before the auto HTML conversion on the list?
yes. i am constantly having to hand-edit people's replies to add line-breaks. it's been amazingly tedious.
Hi Luke,
Does whatever is your favoured editor not have a widget for that sort of thing?
In notmuch+emacs one is editing mails in emacs Message mode, which means you can re-wrap a paragraph, with the quotes being done as one would hope, by simply hitting M-q (Alt-q on my keyboard) when in the offending paragraph.
While one could spend one's life trying to teach people how these things were generally done in the '80s, I came to the conclusion that the steady influx of Internet newbies meant that became a Sisyphean task some time in the '90s, and then got significantly worse when Microsoft inflicted a mail client on the world that punishes people for using email the way we'd prefer.
Using better tools seems likely to be the shorter route to inner calm.
Having said that, I did try to persuade Ron to edit out the 'Original Message' line of his mails, since that makes emacs ignore the whole mail as an empty top-post. He managed to do it a couple of times before the strain became too much, so he was trying before he became trying ;-)
On the plus side, people that resolutely stick to talking in their own preferred style, rather than taking into account the preferred style of their audience, helpfully tag themselves as not being worth one's time.
Cheers, Phil.