From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Minor changes to etc/MORE.STUFF (diff attached)
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:49:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2myzin3kh.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85wsymvjcz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
----- 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. But I do
found boxquote convenient in quoting a small piece of text.
--
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-02 8:49 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
2007-06-02 8:49 ` Leo [this message]
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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