Subj : Re: smartphone for ui dif
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Dec 10 2025 10:55 am

 Re: Re: smartphone for ui dif
 By: Dumas Walker to Nightfox on Wed Dec 10 2025 08:51 am

DW>> If you have an external picked, and are set up to allow you to choose the
DW>> lines to quote before the editor is invoked, the synchronet
DW>> lines-to-quote chooser does not wrap the lines properly and, if the
DW>> message is very long at all, the numbers you are shown on the screen do
DW>> not actually correspond to the line numbers.  So, choosing what looks
DW>> like 5-10 will not quote the lines you think it will... in the case of
DW>> your message, my choice of lines to quote left me with a couple of mostly
DW>> blank ones.

Ni>> The message editor has a lot to do with quoting, so it's not just
Ni>> Synchronet. If the mesasge editor is written specifically for Synchronet
Ni>> (such as one of the JavaScript message editors), they can format the
Ni>> quote lines, keeping in mind how the quote lines are provided by
Ni>> Synchronet.  But if the editor isn't aware of Synchronet (such as Nano or
Ni>> something else), then perhaps the quote lines are in a format that the
Ni>> editor isn't expecting.

DW> You obviously didn't read the whole message, so I requoted the pertinent
DW> parts.  The lack of line wrap and the line numbers not matching all
DW> happens in *synchronet*, *before the editor is invoked.*

I don't understand the snark here..  I understood what you were saying.  I was saying that an editor can also re-format the quote lines, aside from what Synchronet may be doing before the editor is invoked.

Nightfox

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