On 7/9/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benno Schulenberg schreef: > > Holly Bostick wrote: > > > >>What I meant to say was: > >> > >>>">sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9" > >> > >>there should be a 'greater-than" sign in fron of the package name, > > > > > > There was a greater-than for me, in KMail, also in your first mail. > > Apparently Thunderbird hides it from you. But it should do that > > only for ">From " and nothing else. Bug in TB? > > > > Benno > > > Yes and no-- the ">" character is the symbol used to distinguish quotes > from regular text-- and Thunderbird converts this character to a colored > vertical line, so that quoted text looks like this when displayed: > > | here is my quoted text > | and here is some more. > > I don't have an issue with this behaviour in general (in fact, I like > the way quoted text is signified under normal circumstances). The > problem is that, in this particular case, the ">" character was the > first non-whitespace character in the line, and T-Bird had no way of > knowing that it was not intended to represent a traditional quote > signifier, but was meant to remain itself. That is, of course, the whole > point of escape characters; to tell the program in question that a > character it has a standard meaning for should in this particular case > not be "translated" to that meaning, but is meant to be "just itself". > > The situation happens very rarely to me, but it's 'obvious' enough > (especially to programmers and scripters, who use escape characters all > the time) that I'm sure there must be some workaround for it for > Thunderbird (since this is Thunderbird-specific behaviour, which I have > noticed in the past, as well as the fact that KMail, for example, does > not do this); I just don't know what it is. > > If there isn't, that *would* be a bug. I'll check MozillaZine and Google > later.... Mozdev seems to like to hide this stuff. If you've ever tried > to find the list of command-line switches for Netscape/Moz/Firefox on > the Internet, you'll know exactly what I mean. > > Holly
What do you mean about the command line switches? The Mozilla.org page about them is right at the top if you Google "Mozilla command line". Also, for Thunderbird, pretty much any character could be used, though that character would be displayed, too, of course. I think even a pipe would work. They are used for quotes sometimes, though, I think, so maybe another character would be better. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
