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Re: Re: Style codes in messages
By: Tracker1 to Tony Langdon on Sun Oct 18 2020 04:24 pm

On 10/16/2020 11:08 PM, Tony Langdon wrote:

You'd need a scheme to to escape literal characters, like in a

That seems to contradict this Thunderbird documentation: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_%28Thunderbird%29

I don't have Thunderbird installed to try it myself. I wonder if maybe there's another option to strip the markup characters too.

I am not sure if this was mentioned or not but in golded I just used STYLECODES hide


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Re: Style codes in messages
By: Rick Smith to Digital Man on Tue Oct 20 2020 07:15 pm

Greetings Digital!

Monday October 19 2020 19:35, you wrote to Tracker1 about an urgent matter!:

Re: Re: Style codes in messages
By: Tracker1 to Tony Langdon on Sun Oct 18 2020 04:24 pm

On 10/16/2020 11:08 PM, Tony Langdon wrote:

You'd need a scheme to to escape literal characters, like in a

That seems to contradict this Thunderbird documentation: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_%28Thunderbird%29

I don't have Thunderbird installed to try it myself. I wonder if maybe there's another option to strip the markup characters too.

I am not sure if this was mentioned or not but in golded I just used STYLECODES hide

Yeah, I saw that in the GoldEd+ manual. Thanks,

digital man

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On 10/19/2020 8:59 PM, Digital Man wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/vFKKt9g.png

That's kind of a bummer. Does it support /*mixing*/ styles? Or *multiple words*?

The multiple words was bold, not italicized, unsure of */inversed/* (test).

Note: it also delimits on a signature tear of "-- " on an otherwise
blank line... would be cool if this was auto-added as trim(message) +
"\n\n-- \n" as a signature prefix when appending user signatures.

Does *any* other program treat "-- " special? What does Thunderbird refer to that line as?

It's a signature tear line... and yes, most of the usenet readers that
I've used in the past, and a few email programs, will recognize it, and sometimes can be set to exclude signatures in replies automatically.

It's similar to the system tear line "---" in practice, but most apps
will only recognize literally "-- " with the space on a line by itself,
not two hyphens alone, or with other text on the same line.

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On 10/19/2020 8:59 PM, Digital Man wrote:

Note: it also delimits on a signature tear of "-- " on an otherwise
blank line... would be cool if this was auto-added as trim(message) +
"\n\n-- \n" as a signature prefix when appending user signatures.

Does *any* other program treat "-- " special? What does Thunderbird refer to that line as?

In addition to my prior reply... several nntp and email programs do
recognize this and may have settings to exclude signatures from replies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block#Standard_delimiter

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Re: Re: Style codes in messages
By: Tracker1 to Digital Man on Wed Oct 21 2020 01:39 pm

On 10/19/2020 8:59 PM, Digital Man wrote:

Note: it also delimits on a signature tear of "-- " on an otherwise
blank line... would be cool if this was auto-added as trim(message) +
"\n\n-- \n" as a signature prefix when appending user signatures.

Does *any* other program treat "-- " special? What does Thunderbird refer to that line as?

In addition to my prior reply... several nntp and email programs do recognize this and may have settings to exclude signatures from replies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block#Standard_delimiter

Okay, cool. I haven't personally used any email programs or news readers that recognized that tear-line syntax, but I'll look into it.

digital man

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On 10/20/2020 8:36 AM, Kirkman wrote:

Seems like a good idea to me.

I'd vote for Markdown, or a subset of Markdown. It's been around for 16 years (see https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax), and has become a de-facto standard on tons of popular tech sites. GitHub, StackOverflow, Reddit
are among those who use it, or a modified version of it.

To me, it's a good fit for BBSes. It was designed to look good and be very readable, even in plain text when it's not interpreted.

Some of the rules would work well in a terminal, others (hyperlinks, inline images, etc) probably only make sense in the web interface.

I like Github Flavored Markdown (gfm) myself, mostly since it's probably
the most widely used variety in practice. Though realistically only bold/italics are really useful for a terminal display, web view is
something different.

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