Re: Dapper Drake install

Ben Shimmin <bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Beck <beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Ben Shimmin <bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> It seems to quote rather like OE, too. I certainly don't recall
> >> Messenger doing that on RISC OS. I also don't recall Messenger being
> >> anywhere near as hideous, either, but I may be remembering through
> >> rose-tinted glasses on that one (it's been a few years)...
> >
> > Is it screwing up my posts?
>
> No; I only noticed the OE-style quoting in a couple of Tony's articles.
>
> > I supose at least OE had quotefix :-)
>
> One expects brokenness from the likes of Microsoft, but one would rather
> hope that Gemini doesn't actually require a third-party add-on just to
make
> it quote properly!
>
Do you mean that?
>
Which is fixed by ^| - paragraph rewrap. But I have now enabled automatic
rewrap on quoted text. Thank you for pointing out the error of my ways :)

> One expects brokenness from the likes of Microsoft, but one would rather
> hope that Gemini doesn't actually require a third-party add-on just to
> make it quote properly!
>
Messenger never had its own editor, but ISTR having to do that in ZAP as
well. Mark is quite responsive to suggestions for improvements. Gemini has
evolved a lot due to user feedback.

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Tony van der Hoff | mailto:tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Buckinghamshire, England
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