[Users] characters before the ">" in a quoted line

[Brian Morrison]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 10:11:37 -0800
Viatrix via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On 2023-02-27T21:20:42+0000
> Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > e.g.    
>  [...]  
> > >     
> > 
> > Preferences->Message view->Text options gives you control over this
> > but naturally it's difficult to cover every eventuality.
> >   
> 
> Do you mean the following settings?:
> 
> • "Collapse quoted text on double-click" (currently checked)
> • "Treat these characters as quotation marks" (currently only the ">"
>   character)

I meant the second one of these.

> 
> The descriptions don't suggest they'd change which characters can go
> before the quote character.
> 

No, they change which characters are recognised as indicating
quotation.

That is what Claws provides, if you want it to do something else then
you need to explain what you would like and see if someone will
implement it. There may be a way of doing it using regexes and actions
but of course that will probably be a bit more manual than automated.

Please remove your Reply-To: for list posts.

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Brian Morrison

                "I am not young enough to know everything"
                                                          Oscar Wilde