Forum posting question ... how post a thread question with color syntax highlighting ?? (page 2)

On Monday, 6 September 2021 at 01:18:20 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: > That's because I've been using Thunderbird for mail and news for a long time now and unfortunately it is impossible to convince Thunderbird to add the necessary header field. (Vladimir has a recommendation where I can run a simply local server that augments Thunderbird's headers but I haven't tried it yet.) > > I should go back to using Emacs for news. I am pretty sure it will be configurable. I used Thunderbird many many years and when Mozilla started doing stupid things to FireFox/Thunderbird (and almost abandoning Thunderbird by the way) I switched to ClawsMail and I can not be ever happier since then. Tiny, unobtrusive, extremely-fast, extremely-configurable, and guaranteed no-surprises-on-the-horizon which for me was the tipping point. Text-only mail only, no HTML/no-JavaScript, so bye-bye lots of possible attack-scenarios. I adopted ClawsMail when I switched from Windows to linux as my daily driver. If you feel giving it a try it is on https://www.claws-mail.org/.

September 06, 2021

Re: Forum posting question ... how post a thread question with color syntax highlighting ??

Posted by Steven Schveighoffer
in reply to Mike Parker

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Steven Schveighoffer

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On 9/6/21 10:13 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

On Monday, 6 September 2021 at 13:23:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

I will note though, that some people use the mechanism for links that puts the link at the bottom of the post, and this can be annoying when you reply, if you don't include the link definition, it doesn't render correctly.

Now that's interesting. I had assumed it would be less annoying than having them inline. Especially since people had already adopted a similar convention before we got Markdown support. I gave up on Thuderbird and went full-on with the web interface a couple of years ago, so I've had no view of the experience post-Markdown.

Yeah the convention isn't terrible, but it looks weirder for sure when the link is missing.

E.g. look at this post: https://forum.dlang.org/post/miahenxocgxpvasqgptx@forum.dlang.org

and then a reply: https://forum.dlang.org/post/jreujgbixqadnwjsifwj@forum.dlang.org

-Steve

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