Re: [Evolution] Changing Quotation String?

[Mike Strock <mstrock oz net>]

On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 12:25, Brett Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 11:54, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > No, it's not possible. I suppose we could add the feature but I
> > personally am not sure I like the idea. If people change the prefix,
> > then it becomes impossible (not hard, but impossible) to colourize
> > and/or do anything cool with quoted text in general.
>
> Nonsense.  A fixed quotation string is only needed if one is too lazy to
> implement the solution correctly.  Take a look at Balsa, for example. 
> Balsa lets you specify whatever you'd like as a quotation string, and
> also lets you specify a regular expression to match against to determine
> whether a line is quoted or not.
>
> Besides, simply refusing to allow people to select their own quote
> string in Evolution doesn't change the quote strings that Evolution has
> to deal with (since *lots* of folks already use mailers other than
> Evolution which allow them to select their own quote string).

Now come on.  There are many things that would be nice to have in
Evolution 1.0.  As someone who has worked with teams developing software
(released software), there will always be compromises in 1.0 .

You get 1.0 out the door so people fall in love with it, and enhance it
in future versions.  Calling people lazy because they didn't implement
your pet feature is poor,  in my opinion.

Put it on the list for 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3, and let's focus on problems that
need to be fixed for 1.0 (actual bugs, I mean).

Mike Strock
mstrock oz net