Re: [Evolution] Changing Quotation String?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 11:08, Brett Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 19:55, Mike Strock wrote:
> > 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.
>
> [...]
>
> > Calling people lazy because they didn't implement
> > your pet feature is poor,  in my opinion.
>
> My apologies for the way that sounded.  I didn't mean that the
> implementors of Evo are lazy.  What I meant to say was that a simple
> "it's impossible" reply (or even a "it's too hard" reply) was rather
> lazy (besides being quite incorrect).  Again my apologies to the Ximian
> folks and other Evolution contributors.  Evolution is an *awesome* piece
> of work, you folks are *definately* not lazy.

No offense taken, however I don't know if I like the idea of a regex,
our target users are not perl hackers :-)

I will keep the regex approach in mind though.

Jeff

> BTW, definable quotation strings are definately *not* my pet feature - I
> couldn't care much less about it.  _My_ pet feature request is that LDAP
> search attributes be customizable for the auto-completion feature.
>
> Cheers!
> -- 
> Brett Johnson <brett_johnson hp com>
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