Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed claws quotes colourisation (was: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?)

[Dan Farrell]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 01:07:30 +0200
Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@×××.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 12:26:31 -0500 Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:07:02 +0200
> > Tony Stohne <tstohne@××××××××.net> wrote:
> > > Mick said the following on 2007-04-05 19:07:
> > > | ...
> > > | Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output.  Passing
> > > | --color=y
> > > to either
> > > | tells me things like:
> > > | ==============================
> > > | There is no color=y option ("less --help" for help)
> > > | ==============================
> > > |
> > > | I also tried --color but it's all still shown in black & white.
> > > | How
> > > do you
> > > | pipe a file and get it to show in color?  Am I missing something
> > > | in my .bashrc or elsewhere?
> > >
> > >
> > > That should do the trick :)
> > >
> > > //Regards Tony
> > >
> > > PS. Have a nice Easter everyone!
> > Hey tony,  maybe this is beyond your control, or maybe you don't
> > care, and if not i respect your autonomy in such matters, but your
> > reply block punctuation character '|' defeats the very helpful
> > colorization of my and many other browsers that use the usual '>'
> > character to identify reply text.  It makes your letters nearly
> > unreadable. respects, - dan
>
> I use Sylpheed Claws as you do and colours work fine here. You can
> define '|' as quotation character in Configuration --> Preferences -->
> Compose --> Quoting. Just set ">|" as quotation characters and both
> '>' and '|' will be recognised and properly colourised.
>
> Cheers,
> Renat
>
Thanks !!! I'm a very visual person (useful for things like email ;) )
so that helps enormously.
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