[Evolution] Re: Advice

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

Don Duck Harper <duck duckland org> writes:

> It is generally very easy to set up regex to cover 99% of the charaters
> used to mark replies...

Really?  Could you give me such a regexp, which would cover any ASCII
character (including 8 bit characters), multi-character sequences, and
more importantly, be able to differentiate between different _levels_
of quoting so that it can highlight or hide them differently?  Without
ending up with massive false positives?

If you can, I think the entire Gnus user base would be very happy,
since we've been trying for years and haven't come up with a good
solution.

> personally, because I am currently in a text MUA 100%, I *like* the
> different charaters, as it servers the same function to me as your
> highlighting.

Wouldn't it be better to fix Mutt so it can highlight?  (Or use XEmacs
with Gnus.)  That can be done on a pure text terminal.  Furthermore,
if everyone _did_ use the same quoting char, the MUA could reliably
display it however you wanted it to, including putting smileys in
front of each line.

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