Subj : smartphone for ui dif
To   : ACCESSION
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Tue Dec 09 2025 09:29:51

>  > Hmmm, yeah, so I told the synchronet internal editor to quote part of
>  > your message but all I got was blank lines.

> Looks like you're using nano on this message. Are you using the correct
> execution of nano to pick up the quoted text from a text file?

It isn't a nano issue.  There is something "funny" that goes on when trying
to pick lines to quote in synchronet, before you ever get to the editor,
when trying to quote messages with "run-on lines."

I did some testing.  If you have the internal editor picked, the synchronet
lines-to-quote chooser seems to wrap the lines and give "correct" lines
numbers, i.e. if you pick to quote lines 5-10, you will get 5-10.

If you have an external picked, and are set up to allow you to choose
the lines to quote before the editor is invoked, the synchronet
lines-to-quote chooser does not wrap the lines properly and, if the message
is very long at all, the numbers you are shown on the screen do not
actually correspond to the line numbers.  So, choosing what looks like 5-10
will not quote the lines you think it will... in the case of your message,
my choice of lines to quote left me with a couple of mostly blank ones.

So probably not an issue that is affecting the newbs, and probably doesn't
affect many others.  Just the few that might choose to allow for choosing
lines to quote before firing up an external editor like nano.  ;)


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