Top-posting shenanigans (was: Re: ASR33 $1000+ And Counting...)

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Sat Feb 26 17:58:06 CST 2005


> 
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> 
> > In Outlook, yes, it's a righteous pain.  In PINE, as you might know,
> > CTRL-J fixes most messed up quoted paragraphs.
> 
> Eh?! Oh, you mean the pico editor! Too many brain cells pre-wired for
> vi here.

The mental case who picked ^J for that needs to be LARTed. Problem is, ^J 
is linefeed and if you happen to hit return on entering pico before it 
sets the terminal driver to raw mode, it'll justify the first paragraph 
of your file for you. If it happens to be a mail message you're replying 
to, then the '>' characters at the start of each line will mean the 
entire file is taken as one paragraph (no blank lines to mark the end of 
the paragraph) so you get a total mess.

Yes, I understand 'J' for 'justify', but....

-tony


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