Re: Detection of quote levels in format-flowed with hard line breaks
Hi Christian!
On Sunday, April 2, 2006 at 12:36:22 +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
> Sometimes I receive mails that are format-flowed and contain hard
> breaks. The raw text looks like this then:
>| > This is a quote containing
>| > a hard line break
That case is fully defined by the flowed RFC: This is *not* quoted
text, but 2 lines that happen to begin with a ">". The key difference is
the raw space prepended to those lines. See RFC 3676 section 4.4 about
"Space-Stuffing".
> $quote-regexp does not work eg. for coloring.
It's a feature.
But it's a feature that annoys me as well. Since years I receive
many true false quotes like this. Apparently some Eudora and Mozilla
users stepping on a bug, doing a false move, or copy-pasting without
"paste as quoted text": I never discovered exactly what happens.
You can patch Mutt to color such space stuffed quotes as if they
were normal quotes: In handler.c:flowed_stuff(), comment out the
state_puts("\033[0m",s); line.
Bye! Alain.
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