Subj : Program Quoter - you are very welcomed
To   : Anatoliy Kovalenko
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Fri Mar 02 2018 18:00:57

Hi, Anatoliy!  Recently you wrote in a message to alexander koryagin:

ak> BTW, below there are two quoting variants. From your opinion - are they
ak> both correct? If yes, which one is better?

AK> The first one is better for GUI editors like mine, the second one is
AK> better for text mode editors (80x25) like GoldEd or I don't know
AK> what people use in DOS (does anyone use DOS anyway?).


            I am allowing my message editor a free hand, for purposes of this 
discussion, and the quoted lines here meet my criteria re legibility....  ;-)


            From my standpoint... using timEd, which is a text mode editor... 
the second version is easier to read because the margins are consistent & all 
the quoted material appears in the same colour.  With this program Dallas & I 
can select different colours for displaying quotations, kludge lines, and new 
input.  When TimEd line wraps material quoted by another person in such a way 
that it exceeds my 80-character screen limit, all hell breaks loose:

 1)  The line length is erratic & unpredictable.

 2)  Some lines appear in the wrong colour.

 3)  Some lines are attributed to the person who quoted them last, not to the
     original authors.


            It was this message of yours, BTW, which enabled me to figure out 
why typing "ak>" only at the beginning of a multi-line quotation doesn't work 
very well when timEd tries to make sense of it.  Thanks for the insight.  :-)




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