Allegedly, on or about 07 June 2017, Samuel Sieb sent: > I've always done that and almost did that again right here. :-) It's > easier to just put a newline in instead of also deleting the extra ">" > from the previous line. > Just hitting enter twice would quickly break the quoting apart. If you'd started out using mail clients that auto-rewrapped the quoted text, too, using a too-simple algorithm, you'd hate having to deal with poorly quoted text. The entire prior message turns into a blob of indistinguishable quotes of quotes and comments. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 (always current details of the computer that I'm writing this email on) Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. The mindset of software designers: You know that feature that you, and many thousands of other users, found useful? We removed it, because we didn't like it. We also hard-coded the default settings that you keep customising. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
