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On 7/9/05, Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> wrote: |
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> Benno Schulenberg schreef: |
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> > Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> > |
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> >>What I meant to say was: |
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> >> |
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> >>>">sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9" |
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> >> |
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> >>there should be a 'greater-than" sign in fron of the package name, |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > There was a greater-than for me, in KMail, also in your first mail. |
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> > Apparently Thunderbird hides it from you. But it should do that |
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> > only for ">From " and nothing else. Bug in TB? |
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> > |
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> > Benno |
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> Yes and no-- the ">" character is the symbol used to distinguish quotes |
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> from regular text-- and Thunderbird converts this character to a colored |
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> vertical line, so that quoted text looks like this when displayed: |
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> |
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> | here is my quoted text |
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> | and here is some more. |
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> I don't have an issue with this behaviour in general (in fact, I like |
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> the way quoted text is signified under normal circumstances). The |
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> problem is that, in this particular case, the ">" character was the |
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> first non-whitespace character in the line, and T-Bird had no way of |
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> knowing that it was not intended to represent a traditional quote |
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> signifier, but was meant to remain itself. That is, of course, the whole |
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> point of escape characters; to tell the program in question that a |
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> character it has a standard meaning for should in this particular case |
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> not be "translated" to that meaning, but is meant to be "just itself". |
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> The situation happens very rarely to me, but it's 'obvious' enough |
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> (especially to programmers and scripters, who use escape characters all |
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> the time) that I'm sure there must be some workaround for it for |
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> Thunderbird (since this is Thunderbird-specific behaviour, which I have |
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> noticed in the past, as well as the fact that KMail, for example, does |
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> not do this); I just don't know what it is. |
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> If there isn't, that *would* be a bug. I'll check MozillaZine and Google |
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> later.... Mozdev seems to like to hide this stuff. If you've ever tried |
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> to find the list of command-line switches for Netscape/Moz/Firefox on |
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> the Internet, you'll know exactly what I mean. |
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> Holly |
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What do you mean about the command line switches? The Mozilla.org page |
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about them is right at the top if you Google "Mozilla command line". |
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Also, for Thunderbird, pretty much any character could be used, though |
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that character would be displayed, too, of course. I think even a pipe |
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would work. They are used for quotes sometimes, though, I think, so |
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maybe another character would be better. |
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