On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:22 PM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That is, frankly, a ridiculous suggestion as it entails changing a
>> huge part of my major workflow.
>
> You should not criticize when someone offers a suggestion that may or
> may not fit in your workflow. Nobody here knows your workflow, just
> like you don't know mine. We all make suggestions in good faith and
> the other party is free to evaluate and choose as they like. If you
> don't want to hear any suggestions that go against your workflow let
> me know and I will stop making suggestions entirely.

Right you are Daniel. That was very wrongly put by me. My apologies.

The point was, (which could have been stated better), that syntax
highlighted, fixed-width font code blocks would help greatly. As would
also tags using a tagging system that was designed for programming
tags, not the kind of labeling system offered by gmail and other mail
programs. As would also programming oriented auto-suggest, and a very
large and responsive programming community. Some of that overlaps with
the PDL mailing list, and some other can be replicated, but with
kludges. Stackoverflow brings all of this together in one place.

In any case, Stackoverflow was also a suggestion, which will only go
as far as there are takers for it.

By the way, one doesn't have to convert Gmail to POP server to use a
desktop mail program, as Gmail offers IMAP (which is what I use), and
one can also use a custom css, as I mentioned earlier. What it lacks
is the ability to recognize code blocks as such, and syntax color them
based on the programming language.

Oh, and thanks for your suggestion and responses. All our gratefully received.

>
> Daniel.
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