hi joey, On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 03:28:24PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I think that for non-threaded comments, the convention for reply is just > to add a new comment. Perhaps using the @name convention to refer to a > previous commenter in the thread.
but it'd be nice to quote with some context...
> The thing I occasionally find I want with comments is a way to add a new
> comment at the command line. The form of a comment file is not easy to
> come up with save by cut and paste from an existing comment. A little
> utility to generate a new blank comment and run $EDITOR on it, perhaps?
that would certainly be useful, since i'm personally more inclined to work
via the command line after pulling the latest comments from the main site.
and if using the cmdline, there could also be an option to
reference previous comments (i.e. -r comment_1 -r comment_5) so that they're
automatically included with some nice default formatting like
content="""
jdoe said:
> comments
> here
jsmith said:
> more comments
"""]
before being sent to $EDITOR. and i suppose it would be possible to do
something similar with the cgi; for each comment, after the comment you
get a "reply to this comment", which is the same as "add a new comment", but
including blockquoted text in a similar fashion.
what do you think?
sean
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