Subj : Re: quoting..
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nick Boel
Date : Sun Jan 26 2025 15:55:58

Hey Maurice!

On Sun, Dec 08 2024 20:41:25 +0000, you wrote ..

>Other than tacking on the prefix ' > ' the above quote is an exact 
>replica of the original text.  This differs slightly from what Nick 
>last posted where the prefix omitted the leading space, '> '.  Either 
>way works for me but am noting that mutt (email agent with vim as 
>default editor) uses the '> ' quote prefix which appears to be the norm 
>in traditional email applications.

Can confirm that the leading space is not included in most of the email and/or newsgroup clients I've tried recently.

This list consists of Thunderbird, Claws Mail, slrn, tin, alpine, and most recently (and used in this message), neomutt. However, I believe that string is configurable in most of the ones I just listed, but if you change the default, then external editors like vi(m) or nano don't recognize them when you try to reformat the quoted text.

>... Šonne se heretoga wacaš žonne biš eall se here swiše gehindred.

How's the weather up there? This past Monday and Tuesday we got to -30F (-34.44444C).

Regards,
Nick

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