From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Minor changes to etc/MORE.STUFF (diff attached)
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:41:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85wsymvjcz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r6oun5mr.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Sat\, 02 Jun 2007 09\:05\:16 +0100")
Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> ----- David Kastrup (2007-06-02) wrote:-----
>
>>>> BTW, boxquote.el is very famous and widely used. Why not make it
>>>> part of Emacs?
>>
>> Because it is ugly,
>
> Do you mean the code needs polishing?
No. The results are non-standard, are not suited for extracting or
quoting. It's the same reason supercite is not a good idea, only more
so.
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.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-02 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-02 6:16 Suggestion: Minor changes to etc/MORE.STUFF (diff attached) CHENG Gao
2007-06-02 6:35 ` CHENG Gao
2007-06-02 6:38 ` CHENG Gao
2007-06-02 7:48 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-02 8:05 ` Leo
2007-06-02 8:41 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-06-02 8:49 ` Leo
2007-06-02 9:02 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-02 9:15 ` Leo
2007-06-02 9:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-02 13:33 ` boxquote (was: Suggestion: Minor changes to etc/MORE.STUFF (diff attached)) Jesper Harder
2007-06-02 22:39 ` boxquote Miles Bader
2007-06-02 10:59 ` Suggestion: Minor changes to etc/MORE.STUFF (diff attached) Chong Yidong
2007-06-05 2:05 ` Michael Olson
2007-06-02 12:26 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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