On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 19:40 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2023, James Bottomley > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 08:29 +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > > > Here we all are, brilliantly talented computer programmers who > > > spend our days making amazing fast digital devices do amazingly > > > clever and subtle things, inventing time-saving tools and > > > processing vast amounts of data without blinking, but for some > > > reason we think the task of skipping over a few thousand lines > > > that all start with '>"s too hard for us and that we should, in > > > stead, complain to some other human to convince them to make our > > > life easier for us. > > > > > > Does anyone else see the irony? > > > > So if I'm a brilliantly talented driver, it's OK for other people > > to drive on the wrong side of the road because I should be able to > > avoid them? > > Nah, we're all brilliant car manufacturers that could have our cars > deal with the situation. ;) > > The notmuch emacs interface has collapsed citations since at least > 2010. I think Neil's point is, if we're all using open source MUAs, > why don't we scratch that particular itch and move on, instead of > getting frustrated by it year after year? Because some MUAs don't have it. Others are a bit aggressive, meaning you have to turn it off anyway if you want to see what's in more than a couple of lines of a quote (it only takes me a couple of emails to get incredibly annoyed with the way gmail does it, for instance, since it never seems to leave enough useful context). James
