Okay, you know what -- QUOTES ARE WAY UNDERUSED.
People don't multi-quote enough. People don't know the pleasure of replying everything line by line.
You know what? Because people use the Quote bbc button and it's so complicated.
Power-quoters like me, and perhaps Pete, do it manually. Quote message... Okay, focus on message, ctrl+end, ctrl+shift+left arrow until I select the entire [/quote], ctrl+c, ctrl+home (I use ctrl a lot, at this point...), go to end of the quote I want to reply to, ctrl+v, enter, enter, type answer... Enter, enter, ctrl+v, right arrow, del (this effectively turns it into an opening quote), go to end of the quote, keep doing it that way...
Now, you can try it if you never did. It works and, well, I don't see a better way of doing it quickly.
...
Until today.
I remembered these freaking' annoying e-mails.
Which were so easy to reply to, because they already were entirely quoted.
> Hello, world.
> Reply to this.
> Just below.
See? It's easy.
> More quotes.
---------------> Now what? Why can't we do that for Wedge?
That's the idea, really.
Quote message.
Show message. Instead of showing it inside a large quote tag, turn it into a post with limited width, add automatic carriage returns, and *add > signs in front of each line*.
Now, the user can reply like on any e-mail they may want to quote...
And then, when they hit the Send button, that's where the magic is supposed to be applied: we turn back this post into a properly quoted post. I don't know exactly how, but we can discuss it. Basically, it's simply about concatenating all lines with a starting ">" into a single quote. Special cases like code tags should be accounted for (we have to deal with them as a single block). We could keep a copy of the quoted post in memory, and compare it with the new post, and thus do some sort of diff on it -- you know, like Wikipedia. And then we quote everything that was inside the earlier post, and only that.
It could be exciting... Because it's something that actually talks to e-mail users. There are a few, I've heard. :whistle:
People don't multi-quote enough. People don't know the pleasure of replying everything line by line.
You know what? Because people use the Quote bbc button and it's so complicated.
Power-quoters like me, and perhaps Pete, do it manually. Quote message... Okay, focus on message, ctrl+end, ctrl+shift+left arrow until I select the entire [/quote], ctrl+c, ctrl+home (I use ctrl a lot, at this point...), go to end of the quote I want to reply to, ctrl+v, enter, enter, type answer... Enter, enter, ctrl+v, right arrow, del (this effectively turns it into an opening quote), go to end of the quote, keep doing it that way...
Now, you can try it if you never did. It works and, well, I don't see a better way of doing it quickly.
...
Until today.
I remembered these freaking' annoying e-mails.
Which were so easy to reply to, because they already were entirely quoted.
> Hello, world.
> Reply to this.
> Just below.
See? It's easy.
> More quotes.
---------------> Now what? Why can't we do that for Wedge?
That's the idea, really.
Quote message.
Show message. Instead of showing it inside a large quote tag, turn it into a post with limited width, add automatic carriage returns, and *add > signs in front of each line*.
Now, the user can reply like on any e-mail they may want to quote...
And then, when they hit the Send button, that's where the magic is supposed to be applied: we turn back this post into a properly quoted post. I don't know exactly how, but we can discuss it. Basically, it's simply about concatenating all lines with a starting ">" into a single quote. Special cases like code tags should be accounted for (we have to deal with them as a single block). We could keep a copy of the quoted post in memory, and compare it with the new post, and thus do some sort of diff on it -- you know, like Wikipedia. And then we quote everything that was inside the earlier post, and only that.
It could be exciting... Because it's something that actually talks to e-mail users. There are a few, I've heard. :whistle: