Re: Suggestion: Minor changes to etc/MORE.STUFF (diff attached)

[David Kastrup]

Leo <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- David Kastrup (2007-06-02) wrote:-----
>
>>>> BTW, boxquote.el is very famous and widely used. Why not make it
>>>> part of Emacs?
>>
>> Because it is ugly, 
>
> Do you mean the code needs polishing?

No.  The results are non-standard, are not suited for extracting or
quoting.  It's the same reason supercite is not a good idea, only more
so.

Inclusion of files has _standard_ MIME mechanisms available.  If
people want a boxquote _look_, they should configure their _reader_ to
_display_ that sort of thing.  They should not _post_ stuff in a
manner that makes it close to impossible to actually extract it in a
useful way with any mail/news client.

For inline quotes of files, there is a standard.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum