- From: David Dorward <david@us-lot.org>
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 22:37:38 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 1 Mar 2004, at 13:12, David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk wrote: > <poehlman> said: >> I'm not sure what a line based email client is > OK, my jargon. Any tool that restricts a user in whatever way, to > getting content one line at a time. Others might be a soft braille > display, AT that presents one line at a time, A *nix tool that is > command line driven etc. For the record, most command line tools these days are quite capable of providing an interactive page based display. So being command line driven doesn't imply that it is a line based tool (although I could configure mutt[1] to use ed[2] if I really wanted to). Mutt does, however, know how to cope with the traditional quoting style (interleaved with quote levels indicated by greater than signs) very nicely. It colour codes each level of quoting, allows the user to skip past the current block of quoted text by typing S and to toggle quoted text on and off with T. These features do, of course, depend on people sticking to the usual style of quoting and are useless when dealing with top posting or id tagged messages. A gratuitous screenshot of mutt can be found (for a short while) at <http://dorward.me.uk/tmp/mutt.jpeg>. It features colour coded quoted material and quite large font sizes (yes, I am aware that some people require much larger font sizes). Another part of this thread was discussing the difficulty of line lengths and quoted material, especially as regards to reflowing it. My editor (mutt calls a user configurable editor rather then depending on any built in functionality), emacs, is quite capable of reflowing quoted text and maintaining the prefixing of each line with a greater than sign without sprinkling the inner content with them. In short - when presented with standard quoting techniques, good tools can handle themselves well. This includes email software with an aural output - if such software doesn't exist, then it is at least technically possible to write (and something I might have considered looking into for my third year project at university had I thought of it at the time. (Hint to anyone who follows this list and happens to be in that situation <grin>)). [1] Rather nice command line email client [2] line EDitor
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