On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:13:54PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     In that case, wouldn't it be sufficient to change the default font
>     used for cited text?
> 
> There may not be many choices on a text console. 

This is a general problem of font-lock-mode on a text console.  

As I wrote in my mail: the face used is the same as used for comments,
so it really has to be readable, as it is used for long and important
text in many situations.  If that seems not possible, than using
fontification in general is the problem, not only for sited text in
mails.

> Anyway, I don't see any reason why cited text should be fontified.

Well, for the same reason fontification is used most of the time:
it's easier to distinguish cited text from the rest of the buffer
content, even without looking at the beginning of the lines.

cheers
sascha
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