Re: [ba-ohs-talk] bootstrap list message content & purple numbers
Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> In my experience using purple numbers with e-mail, I have not once
> found the need to address a quoted excerpt. Because I have not needed the
> purple numbers associated with quoted text, implementing this feature
> wouldn't be of any benefit to me. However, I'm certainly open to contrary
> experiences suggesting otherwise. (01)
The posts that Jack Park and others make that are forwarded from other lists
tend to appear as quoted excerpts with perhaps a small comment from the
forwarder. However, the bulk of any following discussion might often revolve
around quoting from the forwarded message (which tends to appear as quoted). (02)
--
Peter (03)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Eric Kim" <eekim@eekim.com>
To: <ba-ohs-talk@bootstrap.org>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ba-ohs-talk] bootstrap list message content & purple numbers (04)
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Peter Jones wrote:
>
> > Have you got a version with lots of documentation? (I hate reading
> > unannotated perl ;-)
>
> *laugh* Not lots, but some. Tell you what. When I release the code, you
> look at it. If something is nonobvious, ask about it here, and I'll
> explain it. If my explanations are any good, I'll insert them into the
> code. It's documentation-by-interrogation. :-)
>
> > No, I'm suggesting that if you replace the > characters with something
that
> > is inert with respect to the purple numbering processing (maybe some
nifty
> > CSS styling indicator wrapped around each quoted line - maybe with a
colour
> > change for the background (?)) then separate paragraphs will be numbered
> > nice and neatly and it will display well too.
>
> Gotcha. Sure, could be done. But it would be low on my priority list.
> In my experience using purple numbers with e-mail, I have not once
> found the need to address a quoted excerpt. Because I have not needed the
> purple numbers associated with quoted text, implementing this feature
> wouldn't be of any benefit to me. However, I'm certainly open to contrary
> experiences suggesting otherwise.
>
> -Eugene
>
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> (05)