From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: Minor changes to etc/MORE.STUFF (diff attached) Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:02:51 +0200 Message-ID: <85bqfyvidg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <851wgux0dg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85wsymvjcz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180774995 20189 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2007 09:03:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 09:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 02 11:03:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HuPVv-0001aH-9k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:03:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuPVt-0000cW-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:03:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuPVm-0000cN-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuPVj-0000bt-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuPVi-0000bo-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:02:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.47]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuPVh-00033J-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:02:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-10-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.27]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E8024B230; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:02:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE48023D34F; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:02:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-016-061.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.16.61]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91E21C3327; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:02:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 58C1E1C3E046; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:02:51 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Leo's message of "Sat\, 02 Jun 2007 09\:49\:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72043 Archived-At: Leo writes: > ----- David Kastrup (2007-06-02) wrote:----- > >> Inclusion of files has _standard_ MIME mechanisms available. If >> people want a boxquote _look_, they should configure their _reader_ to >> _display_ that sort of thing. They should not _post_ stuff in a >> manner that makes it close to impossible to actually extract it in a >> useful way with any mail/news client. >> >> For inline quotes of files, there is a standard. > > I never use it for quoting files and barely see others do. Just because people prefer to shoot themselves in the foot, there is no necessity for handing them a gun. > But I do found boxquote convenient in quoting a small piece of text. For quoting it. But it is a nuisance for extracting/using/whatever it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum