On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:35:12PM -0700, John Iverson wrote:
> * On Fri, 17 May 2002, Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> > Actually, since it's just text in the quote, I like having them
> > in the same color as the rest of the quote, which is how I have
> > my quote_regexp configured.
>
> Are you referring to my quote of David's example, or the
> original? :-)
Now that I've gone back to find your quote of David's example, and the
original, and your original, I think maybe I should get out of this
thread, the reason being that I don't observe the problem. I think I
agree with your original complaint, but I don't see the problem myself
because I got tired of seeing non-quoting elements of messages colored
as though they were at different quoting levels and changed my
quote_regexp to fix that. In your original message you had
> This is in "quoted" color
| This is in "quoted1" color
: This is in "quoted2" color
} This is in "quoted" color
# This is in "quoted1" color
> This is in "quoted" color again
My mutt rendered the first and last lines as "quoted" but all the others
as plain text. I have removed "|" from my quote_regexp because it's
commonly used in ASCII tables; ":" because it's commonly used in front
of vim commands; "}" because it's commonly used in C code snippets; and
"#" because it's commonly used in script snippets. I hardly ever see
any of these used for quoting. One other change I made to quote_regexp
was to add "%" to handle you-know-who's quoting.
> > > But it looks to me like Mutt doesn't really know the depth of
> > > a quote as it works now. For example, if you have a message
> > > with _only_ "second-level" or higher quote prefixes (say "> >
> > > "), Mutt still seems to start with the first-level color.
> >
> > It starts with the first-level color because a second-level or
> > higher quote is part of a first-level quote. Having the first
> > quote character in one color lets you see the scope of the
> > entire quote.
>
> I understand that, but I think you're talking about a message
> with both first- and second-level quotes. My point was that if
> you view a message such as the following (with no other text):
>
> > > All lines in this message begin with at least *two*
> > > greater-than signs (or other quote_regexp-matching
> > > characters).
>
> ... then mutt uses the first-level color only, instead of the
> second-level color, which might be expected. Maybe "start with"
> was the wrong phrase to use.
Actually, in your message those lines appeared with the color of
third-level quoting. IMNSHO, that's just wrong. I sent myself some
mail containing just those lines and verified that they use the
first-level color only, just as you said.
> > It doesn't really matter to me which way mutt does it. Each
> > method has a logic behind it. It's more a matter of preference
> > and what you might be used to from other tools.
>
> True. And I think a lot of people use mutt in conjunction with
> Vim, which seems to go by quote depth only (haven't looked into
> reconfiguring this).
Now that I understand better what you were saying, and why I didn't see
the problem at first, I agree with you and I retract my statement above
about it not mattering.
Gary
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