[Users] error in display of empty quoted lines

Dave Howorth dave at howorth.org.uk
Sat Apr 7 13:31:34 CEST 2018


On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 12:25:15 +0100
Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:

> I think there is an error in how claws displays empty quoted lines. I
> received an email that contains the following sequence:
> 
> greater [some text then] newline greater space newline greater space
> newline [more text]
> 
> So [some text then] is part of an original message and [more text] is
> part of a reply to that message.
> 
> I would expect it to be displayed as:
> 
> > some text then
> > 
> >   
> more text
> 
> But claws actually displays it as
> 
> > some text then  
> > > more text  
> 
> which is very confusing. Presumably you will need to use something
> other than claws to view this mail to see what I am talking about.

Hmm, claws displays my mail as I would hope, so there's something more
complicated going on. What other information does the display depend
upon than the characters actually in the text?

> I'm using claws 3.13.2 which is standard on openSUSE Leap 42.3. Is
> this a known bug?



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