On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 14:00, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > We took it out because users complained that it sometimes stripped part > of some messages (where people put the magic string into the middle of > the message rather than only using it for their signature).
I can see how that would violate the principle of least surprise. :-) However, what if you parsed back from the end of the message to the last magic string, and then nuke from there to the end? Wouldn't that keep from nuking in-between message text? Of course, this needs to be an option which can be turned on and off at will. Oh, wait a second, you said that this was due to people putting the magic string (which is dash-dash-space "-- ", IIRC) in the middle of their messages. Well, that _is_ a problem. Hrmmm..... Here are some options I thought of which might alleviate concerns on all sides. 1. Do the "nuke-a-sig" routine, but put that into a copy buffer, and have a compose menu item or icon which is "replace removed text", to put it back in case of accident. 2. Make the "nuke-a-sig" routine be something the user has to do by hand in the compose buffer, with an icon or menu item or hot key. 3. When "nuke-a-sig" is run, only have it highlight the text to be removed. Then the user can click elsewhere in the body to leave it intact, or type a key (backspace/delete come to mind) to delete it. Is it possible to have non-contiguous highlight regions? If so, this option could highlight many copies of signatures, ready to be killed all at once. 4. When "nuke-a-sig" is run, start at the end of the message, and only read back <n> (user configurable?) lines to get to the delimiter. I don't know if any of those are feasable or not, but I think that "nuke-a-sig" would help to set this mail reader apart from other mail readers. I know that the first time I saw that happen (it might have even been in evolution), I thought, "wow, that's cool, why doesn't everyone else do this?" rob _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
