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reply Ant <Ant_member pathlink.com> writes:
I think I remember that if the indented code start with a "."
the indentation is preserved.
(Now that I write this I also remember that that was changed)

let's try it:

".    printf("four spaces before this");" results in:

    printf("four spaces before this");

".	printf("one tab before this");" results in:

	printf("one tab before this");

			Ant
Jun 21 2004
next sibling parent reply Ant <Ant_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <cb87k2$aq1$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Ant says...

I think I remember that if the indented code start with a "."
the indentation is preserved.
(Now that I write this I also remember that that was changed)

let's try it:

".    printf("four spaces before this");" results in:

    printf("four spaces before this");

".	printf("one tab before this");" results in:

	printf("one tab before this");

			Ant


see!, it works!



Ant
Jun 21 2004
parent reply Arcane Jill <Arcane_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <cb88d4$bq6$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Ant says...


see!, it works!



Ant


Let's do another experiment then. The following line will consist of a single
dot and nothing else. There will be some more text after that...
Jun 22 2004
parent reply Arcane Jill <Arcane_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <cb95h3$1o6q$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Arcane Jill says...

Let's do another experiment then. The following line will consist of a single
dot and nothing else. There will be some more text after that...


So where did it go?

It would seem that something went wrong there. Dot appears NOT to be a good
character to use if your text-to-indent contains blank lines. Everything after
such a line will be truncated.

I'm going to stick to using >

Arcane Jill
Jun 22 2004
next sibling parent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Julio_C=E9sar_Carrascal_Urquijo?= writes:
Arcane Jill wrote:


 I'm going to stick to using >
 
 Arcane Jill


May I suggest you don't. Your code examples always seems like quoted 
text from the previous message (Specially in Thunderbird. Maybe you 
could use "|" or ":".


-- 
Julio César Carrascal Urquijo
http://jcesar.f2o.org/
Jun 22 2004
prev sibling next sibling parent Derek <derek psyc.ward> writes:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:40:41 +0000 (UTC), Arcane Jill wrote:


 In article <cb95h3$1o6q$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Arcane Jill says...

Let's do another experiment then. The following line will consist of a single
dot and nothing else. There will be some more text after that...


 
 So where did it go?
 
 It would seem that something went wrong there. Dot appears NOT to be a good
 character to use if your text-to-indent contains blank lines. Everything after
 such a line will be truncated.
 
 I'm going to stick to using >
 
 Arcane Jill


If is okay by you, could you use something other than '>'? Every time I see
your code examples, it looks like you are quoting somebody else's code from
previous posting. A bit confusing.

Most news clients use '>' as the default 'quoting' indicator.

-- 
Derek
Melbourne, Australia
Jun 22 2004
prev sibling parent reply Hauke Duden <H.NS.Duden gmx.net> writes:
Arcane Jill wrote:

 In article <cb95h3$1o6q$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Arcane Jill says...
 

Let's do another experiment then. The following line will consist of a single
dot and nothing else. There will be some more text after that...


 
 
 So where did it go?
 
 It would seem that something went wrong there. Dot appears NOT to be a good
 character to use if your text-to-indent contains blank lines. Everything after
 such a line will be truncated.


This is probably a bug (or rather a missing feature) in your email 
client. The SMTP protocol uses a line that consists of only a single dot 
as the end-of-message marker. So if the email client doesn't do some 
magic (like automatically inserting some whitespace, for example) the 
receiving server will cut the message off there.

Hauke
Jun 22 2004
parent reply Arcane Jill <Arcane_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <cb9g6b$29iq$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Hauke Duden says...

This is probably a bug (or rather a missing feature) in your email 
client.


What email client?

Posting to this forum is via a web interface. I'm using a browser, not an email
client.


The SMTP protocol uses a line that consists of only a single dot 
as the end-of-message marker. So if the email client doesn't do some 
magic (like automatically inserting some whitespace, for example) the 
receiving server will cut the message off there.

Hauke


Yeah, I know, which is why it occurred to me to do that particular experiment.
But - surely - the protocol used ought to be HTTP, not SMTP - this being a web
interface.

Anyway, there have been enough persuasive arguments on this thread to convince

and paste the text fragment into a text editor, and then use search and replace



Arcane Jill
Jun 22 2004
parent Hauke Duden <H.NS.Duden gmx.net> writes:
Arcane Jill wrote:

This is probably a bug (or rather a missing feature) in your email 
client.


 
 
 What email client?
 
 Posting to this forum is via a web interface. I'm using a browser, not an email
 client.


Ah, so you use that HTML forum interface on the website. I tried that 
once but quickly got lost :). I assumed you accessed this newsgroup 
directly.

So the bug/missing feature seems to be in the HTML layer that sits on 
top of the newsgroup.

Hauke
Jun 22 2004
prev sibling parent Ivan Senji <ivan.senji public.srce.hr> writes:
Ant wrote:

 I think I remember that if the indented code start with a "."
 the indentation is preserved.
 (Now that I write this I also remember that that was changed)
 
 let's try it:
 
 ".    printf("four spaces before this");" results in:
 
     printf("four spaces before this");
 
 ".	printf("one tab before this");" results in:
 
 	printf("one tab before this");
 
 			Ant
 
 



wanted to copy your code and try it out, i have to remove the
. in each line, and i can't just ReplaceAll . with " "

wouldn't do anything bad.
Jun 22 2004