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Re: Trouble fontifying /** ... */
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Davin Pearson |
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Re: Trouble fontifying /** ... */ |
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Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:10:16 +1300 |
2009/2/2 Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>:
>> What about email attachments. Are they acceptable?
>
> Sort of, I suppose. But "acceptable" isn't perhaps the best way of
> looking at it. The posts on help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org are all competing for
> the attention of people able to answer them. Anything which makes it a
> hassle to see what somebody is asking about reduces the chances of
> anybody bothering with this hassle.
I see your point here. Simpler & Quicker for people reading my email
messages is better.
> Ouch! I hate this sort of thing - software which imposes "helpful"
> features on you. "Hey! Gmail fills text for you AUTOMATICALLY!!!!".
> Then developers justify it with "but that's what \"most people\" want".
>
> Does this line splitting happen when you're composing the email (which
> you can correct, and isn't too bad, because you're only pasting in a
> small amount of text ;-), or after you've posted it (which is
> inexcusable)?
>
> Does Gmail perhaps have some options you could set to fix this?
> Something like "text width" or "automatic filling", or something?
> Gmail's written by Google, isn't it? I thought they were decent software
> engineers.
Not that I can find.
> How about submitting a bug report to Gmail? And if that doesn't get you
> anywhere, start using a decent email client instead?
>
> Anyhow, any progress with your font-locking stuff?
No luck as yet!
By the way, were you responsible for writing the original Emacs java-mode?
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Sincerely and kindest regards, Davin.
Davin Pearson http://www.davinpearson.com