Re: Ident patch

["M . Thielker" <balsa t-data com>]

Hi,

On 2001.10.03 17:00 hitched97 wrote:
>>  As a matter of fact, Balsa could actually insert some, maybe invisible,
>>  special character when auto-appending a signature. Then the start of the
>>  signature would be clear, as long as the character inserted is one that
>>  cannot be entered from the keyboard.
>>  I don't know if it's possible to code it so that the character cannot be
>>  erased by the user, but that would help, too.
>>  Then, on sending the message, that special character gets stripped and 
>>all's
>>  well...
>
>How would you handle it if the user types the character you're using to 
>mark the signature?  Also, it is necessary to know where the end of the

I would use a character that cannot be typed. CTRL-C or CTRL-A or something 
- it could be used twice, to frame the signature, that would cover it being 
at the top of the message, too.
I do not like the idea of yet another pane, and I also don't think MIME is 
a good idea here - I do have MUAs here that don't do MIME and making that 
another MIME part would make every message, even a plain text one, into a 
multipart message, hard to read in ascii on a text only terminal with a 
mailer incapable of rendering it...

Melanie