Re: [Evolution] Request for additions/corrections in Evolution

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

When replying in HTML format, quoted text does not get colourised - it gets indented or something I believe.

In 1.2, it puts a blue vertical bar next to the cited text.

Jeff

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 12:31, Dan Hensley wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 22:19, David Hoover wrote:
> > Isn't syntax highlighting more or less by definition, "be[ing] smart on
> > arbitrary text that someone ... wrote"?
> > 
> > Like when I use vim to edit my mailspool, and it's able to color it, and
> > make citations cyan, based solely on the text?
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong but you're saying these two cases are
> > "completely separate issue[s]":
> >         1. vim (a text editor) looks at some arbitrary text in its
> >            buffer (which was typed, or read from a file, or whatever)
> >            and it goes "Hey, I've been told to color this using my rules
> >            for coloring email, so if it starts with >, make it cyan"
> >         2. Evolution's mail composer (a text editor) has to look at some
> >            arbitrary text in its buffer (which was typed, or included
> >            when you hit reply, or whatever), and goes "Hey, I'm coloring
> >            this using my rules for coloring email (since that's all I
> >            ever do), so if it starts with >, make it cyan"
> > 
> > How is it a completely separate issue? One's a text editor that has
> > zillions of different rules to be able to syntax highlight any of a
> > number of different text formats, and the other is a very specialized
> > text editor, which would only need one set of rules explaining how to
> > syntax highlight one type of text.
>
> I've only vaguely been paying attention to this thread so others may
> have already discussed this, but here's where it gets vague IMHO.  Since
> Evo uses an HTML editor, when you send the mail, does the colored text
> get sent as colored HTML (assuming you're not just sending plain text)? 
> This would NOT be the desired behavior, IMHO, since the original text
> was not colored.  But what if the text is colored to begin with?  Should
> Evo color it based on its quoting rules for visual display, or leave
> colored text alone?  It seems like it could get ambiguous as to what the
> text color is when you actually send the e-mail.
>
> As far as color-coding anyway, the quoted text in my reply window shows
> up as gray (which is probably configurable somewhere), and my text is
> black.  So it's at least smart enough to show that.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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