Re: Beta 1: Conlang Mirror Archives
From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
Date: | Monday, November 13, 2006, 10:05 |
* Philip Newton said on 2006-11-13 07:29:32 +0100
> On 11/13/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> >Erm -- how will I detect quoted text? > at the beginning of a line?
> >That easily? That will not work perfectly.
>
> It may not work perfectly, but it'll give you 90% of what you want
> with 10% of the effort required for a perfect solution, so I'd suggest
> you go with such a simplistic algorithm for now.
You'll still need special casing for quoted lines starting like this:
">From". At least on my mail-system, an empty line followed by a line
starting with "From" marks the beginning of a new mail, so any empty
line+"From" in the message body proper gets the "From" quoted.
t.